Family

 It is important to have family and often they are the people we spend the most time with. You also don't get to decide who they are. But some of your closest family members can turn out to be very weird. I am sure that I am not the only one who feels that way. 

There is nothing like a family wedding that makes you appreciate a bit of 'me' time. We are all a little insane at some level, but what brings about a full blown episode is when we are thrown together for an extended period of time or when the decision making is collective.

Recently, there was an important and also time bound decision to be made and I was trying to call someone (psst..family). She  was too busy to answer the phone, or reply to my text. But not too busy to be on facebook. Very interesting........Or probably they just fainted from the excitement of getting a call from me. I hope she calls back when she wakes up. Or probably they are so touched by my text, that they can't even pull it together to text back. You should applaud me for my tenacity, because I keep calling, to check, how not answering my call is going. 

My family can be said to be quite dysfunctional. What passes as 'normal' in my family, might be quite the 'outlier', if one draws a  family 'normality' curve. 

While some people might have the sweetest things to say about their family , my family interactions are  more like swallowing pills, with swigs of chocolate milk shake in between.