If you ever get the chance listen to a song by Jana Stanfield called: My Little Red book. The book is a contacts book, and there is a line that goes: My family of choice... which refers to all of her friends. That's how I view my friends, as my family of choice.
Why am I wittering on about families? Because they are often the cause of so much upset and hurt. Some of it is unthinking, and some deliberate. Those who enjoy a loving family probably find it hard to understand how a family can be so fragmented, or how they can lose touch. Some decide that family life is so unhappy that they choose not to be involved with it any more, others have their decision made for them. And we all know that real life is not like it is depicted on TV or in the movies, issues and arguments are not easily resolved. Modern life has complicated families even further.
I much prefer the company of my family of choice, those who have been kind enough to let me invite them into my life, and vice versa.
So if you are lucky to have a loving family, then treasure them, if you are not, then go find your family of choice, and treasure them.
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