Greetings!
Relationships are the key to social bonds and without a good relationship in our society, then the society would not be healthy at all but sick. Now, for a society to enjoy good and better relationships, we must all be ready to embrace each other and let love prevail among us all as without love, no kind of a relationship would work.
Having talked so much about relationships and people, I would like to delve into the topic of the prompt before me today which is all about, “Uncles and Aunts.”
In as much as I tried to be of a good relation to my extended family, their bad behaviour would not allow nor permit that to happen. Before the death of my mum, everyone of her family members used to troop to our house just to relate with us as a family. Also, I could remember her immediate younger brother, brother Amos, always coming to our house to solicit for help and in most cases, whatever assistance my mum can offer she would offer for anyone of them accordingly.
However, immediately we lost her to the cold hand of death, all these families stopped coming to our place and I knew it was because they had nobody to take care of their bills for them again that they stopped coming.
Although, at her burial, they came and they promised my brother and I heaven on earth, but immediately they left our house after the burial, we see them no more and that's how we started to live our lives on our own without their input, although, it's very painful not to see them by our sides, but even at that, there's nothing we could do to that as we cannot change their mindset on what they have decided to do.
So, with these acts, we lost contact with them and our relationship with them got stalled and even till today, I have not heard from any of them. For someone like me who loves relationship with my extended family members before the demise of my mum, I now see that relationship with them is nothing as it's all about parasitic living and with what I had passed through without any help coming from anyone of them, I don't think I would be interested in having a relationship with any of my extended family members again as I have only been the one doing things in my own and even taking the responsibility of my immediate younger brother. Although with the help of GOD, I have been able to scale through all the hurdles of life that had come my way, but notwithstanding, they didn't do well at all.
So, with what I have experienced so far in their hands, I don't think I would want to have anything with them again, even if I will not allow my kids to move close to them, not to talk of relating with them.
This is my entry to week 233, episode 02 of the weekly featured contest in the Hive learners community.
Thanks for reading.
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