About Family

When you are of a certain age, you manage to partially understand and wholeheartedly accept your relatives. I do not talk about the family that you create, but about the family that you come from. Your family of origin. You figure out the comfort level at which you can operate and you try to stick to it.
But the part you easily forget, and specially when you live far from them, is how much they are like you and how strange a thing is to have blood relatives. In a distance is easy to forget how much you need and like these people that also need and like you. And of course there are the times when you are reminded of the reasons why you live far from them, but in essence, these people are like you. The shared psychologically deep experiences made you the way you are, and made you similar. That is not to say that we all understood things the same way, quite the opposite, it is amazing to see how many interpretations can exist of a single event. However, it is something to cherish and appreciate that there are people "like you" in the world. You should never take that for granted. I personally miss them.