I was reading an article the other day about two brothers who used to be really close before moving into separate rooms, and it made me realize how far apart families are growing nowadays. It may not be technology either. I’m not really blaming it on anything. Perhaps it is just another development of the human species, trying to reduce family time. Who knows, maybe in the future children will be off in college during our high school…Or not.
This summer, my brother and I have gotten really close. I use to hate him quite a lot. We had a couple things in common, but being as young as he is, it was difficult to put up with his hyperactivity and his low level of understanding for others. However, this summer has forced us to pent up our differences and make friends. I really do feel like a sister now. A few years late,but better than never.
Family. It’s a really close bond. It’s people you’re stuck with until death. There was a time when family did things that would be considered weird now, like walking around naked in the house together or showering together. It’s frowned upon now,but it may not necessarily be society(thought most likely).
I never have dinner with my family. It seems that less and less families are taking the time to sit down and have dinner together. I’m sure this is contributing to the amount of separation from each other that families experience. We take our meals, we sit on the couch, we go to our rooms. There are some days where I don’t even see some members of my family because they may never get up off the couch or I may never leave my computer. We all live in our own worlds.
A lot of my friends, even myself, try to escape our own houses with the intent to leave our family behind. Do we hate them? Probably not. Heavily dislike? Probably not. It is most probable that we just don’t understand them and who they are. In turn, they probably don’t understand us and who we are.
And it’s something ugly.
