Family

I have a very weird family. We are all over the place and we don't really talk to each other unless there is an emergency in the family. For example, my mother had surgery about almost a month and a half ago and my sister in Norway, who I hadn't spoken to in months decides to post on my facebook and say "you know mom is having surgery today, it would be nice if you give her a call". Mean while I was in the waiting room already and had just finished talking to my mother's anesthesiologist. You see...the way that my siblings think is that because I don't follow their religious beliefs I'm in-human in some way, so much that I would not even be there for my mother. They drive me crazy sometimes.

I only enjoy a close relationship with my brother. He and I agree in many ways when it comes to the beliefs of life, faith, spirituality and family. he is the only one I could say I trust aside from my mother. A mother will always be there no matter what. Though sometimes my mother is highly influenced by my father, but I guess I can cut her some slack...lol!

So what do you do when all the odds are against you? When your family is what I like to call the last resource to go to? Is that a shame? I think so. Blood is thicker than water and somehow people that are really not my blood (biologically) have become my family. I will go the extra mile for my family (non biological), but when it comes to my biological one, I can't say that I would "take the shirt off my back" for all of them. Actually, to be specific, I would do it for my mother, and my brother, but that's it. Wow....am I messed up?????