As some of you know, my brother and I went almost 10 years without any communication. Over the past month or so my brother has been emailing me. Just out of the blue like that! So, I was curious, and asked him "why, all of a sudden" the communication resumed. His response:
I've just come to realize that family is important, especially after all
I've seen over the years. I've asserted my independence, and I know that
I'm not going to ask you or anyone else for anything. And it does get
lonely out here, since the only people I really know are the folks I work
with and some of Kathy's friends. None of whom I really can see myself
spending time with outside of work (and I really don't like most of Kathy's
friends...I'll tell you why when I find some way to put it into words that
don't come out sounding like <expletive deleted>.
And I missed my sister.
And there are so few people who "get" me.
I had a good friend here, a girl named Holly. She worked with me, and was
just cool as shit in all ways. But she moved away, because Corvallis is
either a college town or family town, depending on which part you live in.
She didn't get along with the college crowd (people her own age), and she
isn't the marrying type. She moved up to Hillsboro to work in an ER, and to
meet someone I guess. Miss that girl, I does.
I guess I need someone to talk to who won't judge or give advice, someone to
just take me as I am. Fat lumps and all. Ha.
Speaking of fat lumps, I got to get to the gym. Hope the geriatric crowd
isn't there at 6 a.m. Some of them give me the heebie jeebies. (Imagine
wrinkles and loose skin bouncing up and down on the treadmill and tell me
that don't make you wanna yak.)
Later
Chris
Isn't that something!
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2 comments:
And just as quickly your brother cut off communication again, after you told him that you broke his confidence.
If you say you will keep a secret, then keep the secret.
Why would you entrust such a "secret" to someone you don't even know? Sure, we share the same blood line, but people tend to change a lot, especially over a period of 10 years!!
It is unfair to be asked to keep secrets from my mother when she is one of my closest friends. It is even more unfair to expect complete confidence in an estranged sibling.
Maybe I'm wrong to betray the trust of a sibling who left without any thought of the consequences and without considering the emotional abondonment of his own sibling.
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