Musing About Relationships - Beginnings

Relationships energize. 
Relationships suck. 
Relationships live.
Relationships give life meaning. 
Relationships take meaning away and flush it down the toilet.

All true.  All false.  I suppose you can say, "It depends."

Most of us (but not all of us) are born into relationships.  We have one or two parents.  We may have one or more siblings.  We may have grandparents, aunts, cousins, uncles, godparents and more.

Or not. 

A few people are born with the mother dying giving birth, no father on the scene, only distressed nurses and maybe a doctor in attendance.  Or maybe no other person in a shabby room or dirty alley, but someone finds us before we die. 

How many of us get so involved in our pain that we forget that somebody or some somebodies gave us shelter, food, and some sort of relationship even if it was less than wonderful? 

"Shut that kid up!" yelled the girl as she sat up in bed.  Her little sister stopped crying, and dumbfounded parents watched the older girl fall back asleep.

Relationships energize.
Relationships suck. 
Relationships live.
Relationships give life meaning. 
Relationships take meaning away and flush it down the toilet. 

I want to reflect on relationships in the next few months or years, and ask you for your experiences, your opinions, your comments.  Please avoid profanity, juvenile ranting, irrelevant posturing. 

Leave a comment now and let us know what you think.