A Broken Link

Family. The closeness of it all. Definition of a family, a group of people related to one other by blood or marriage. But what about the other family, what about your friends? What about the family that know you away from the home. What about your related family that knows how you feel that knows your real soul? That's not in the definition.

My analogy of a family. It's and iron link chain. Each member is a different chain. Gray links that grip together to form a working unit capable of many many different things. And families will fight to keep that chain together. Have you ever thought, what would you do? What would you do if someone in your family did something illegal. Would you turn them in? If they stole something? If they committed some act that you wouldn't dare speak to anyone else? What would you do?

Don't just say I'd turn them in. I know myself if someone I loved as family or maybe even more did something that bad, I'd still defend them, I need that chain. I believe that everyone needs that chain. If we don't we spiral. If we lose that team, that gray link that grips us together we can't support ourselves. You see it everyday, you see it in the eyes of someone lost to a family, someone left behind by parents in friends. You see them failing at life because the support is gone. I know I can't let that happen to my family.

So here's a question to you. What happens when a link cracks. What happens when someone screws up, what would you do, can you do what's right by the laws of a country when it destroys what's right by the laws of a family? I honestly don't know. My question too you, do you?

Just Think About It,

Tufte