Family

We all have one.  Well, at least some version of one.  We have our parents and siblings, cousins and grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc or we have the family we choose.  There is no biology tying us together, just the shear desire to be family.  

Sometimes we are lucky enough to have both.  

We have the family we were born into; people we love because our DNA comes from the same gene pool; people we might not like very much but are compelled to love out of a sense of duty or because we are similar in so many ways.  But we also have the family we chose.  The family that chose us.  No DNA required.  Just respect and love for the things that make us totally different and, in some ways, totally the same.  

I feel we have enough love to go around.  Bio family or selected family...we love them on the same level.  

SO, here is the lesson I learned today...we may not talk every day or even every week but family, whether via biology or selection,  is so much a part of us that time and distance are irrelevant.  I have their backs...and they have mine.  I worry about them...they worry about me.  I don't have to talk to them every day to know there is an unconditional love and respect between us.

It's how it should be.   

Later...