What is it with people who know you on a personal level and want to improve you in some way? Do you know who Im talking about? Its mom, dad, brother, sister, aunt, uncle or even the grandparents. Yep its family. The very people who always want better for you and are constantly trying to improve how you do something or tell you how wrong you are for doing what you are doing.
I know that family means well but its family that makes us go out looking for something better. This is why we have friends and spouses. Our friends are supposed to counter balance the ever ongoing lack of acceptance from our family.
Look, I know family will always mean well, but they never really accept us for who we really are. They accept us for who we might become. They accept our potential and what they themselves see in us. They accept us as they want see us. God love their short sighted all loving hearts.
Friends are so much more important than anyone will ever know. Friends say I love you just as you are today. They dont say you need to change, or remember when you did this and how dumb you used to be. They dont say look how far you have come. They dont even say wow you could really make something of yourself if only you... (fill in the blank here). What friends do is tell you you are important to them today and they love you for who you are today. They dont care about anything else other than TODAY.
The problem is when family members outweigh the friends in our lives? So many people lack real friends. Family becomes to overbearing and then we become solitude. We feel like there is nothing but failure because there is no acceptance for who we are today.
So when family gets to be to much.... go out and have a drink with your friends. Listen to them and see what they have to say about you. you will find new life in that dead horse your family has been kicking.
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