Family!!!

The family. We are a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another’s desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together.” (-Erma Bombeck)

I had family (through relationship) visiting this weekend and this quote just popped by me today while I was reading something. It strikes the exact chord in anyone who was observing how we interact with families. Our very own (which we were born with) or adopted(through relationships). Funnily it is the common thread factor that I was noticing at times and missing out at times between them.
It is really worth pondering that we are brought up together till a certain adulthood and then we separate ways to follow our own destinies at times. We pass through different circumstances and sieves in our travels about time. We loose some sameness and some common thread becomes more defined and prominent. Then whenever we have the time and opportunity to regroup, to see where we all are in that thread and how much sameness we retained!!!

I think it is because of this close upbringing, that we can at times predict "Why he behaves this way...", "How will she react?"
The same things that a spouse would be able ot predict after living together for some period of time.
But it is interesting to observe still.