Is there a perfect family anywhere ?. My opinion. I don't think so.
Does it matter ? Ultimately it's what we decide to do, how we choose to judge or react to each person and we live with that choice to either love, hate or maintain relationships for family sake.
I suppose this is the cycle of life, the drama of life and so on BUT Life goes on.
I wrote about
My Mother sometime ago. Recently I have been dredging up old memories, which I know I should just drop. My mother has been acting out (literally acting petulant) because of grief and loss and getting me worked up.
A close relative passed away and bad family history (little dramas and sagas) gets dug up. Grief performs some amazing tricks with the mind.
How does a younger person offer advise to an elderly on forgiveness and letting go and moving forward ?
Not that I ever believed I had a perfect family, history and all, I just never heard much about it. At the same time I am hearing about lots of new historical drama that has passed within my own and the different extended families. Arranged marriages that were forced to work and typical IN-LAW horror stories (not a myth !!)... this is the gist of history of my past generation.
My history ( if it be told by my children) ironically while imperfect too is made up of none of these.
we walk every day.
