I've been reading a lot about family members not seeing each other for a long time and must say it does make me sad. I don't see my own sister nearly often enough and have a half sister which I haven't seen since 1986, no idea where she is.
My dad and my mom's mom were very big on family and arranged many a large family gathering at my gran's house over school holidays, especially Christmas.
After the passing of my gran and not long after my dad, the family gathering started to dwindle and subsequently many of us cousins and siblings just seem to lose track of each other nad as many of you know, life also happens which makes things even more difficult and before you know it you don't recognise anyone and everyone has kids and by the time they see you for the first time they have no clue who you are, sad but true.
With social media these days it saddens me that families allow these rifts to occur and grow. Is family just not important to people anymore? I understand disagreements and so on, but does one really write off your own family over stuff that really could be sorted out in civilized and mature fashion?
Why have our values gone astray and why are we so comfortable with losing family that isn't even dead?
Just a little something I thought of today.
Added in is some of the kind of music Afrikaners listen to when there is a braai, some drinks and dancing involved
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