A Sister Calls Her Brother On His Birthday. By: Mr. George D. Patnoe ., Jr!

 A Sister Calls Her Brother On His Birthday.

 By: Mr. George D. Patnoe ., Jr!

 March 7th, 2018

 Is it the old saying true, ‘That blood is thicker than water?’  I still do not know.  But maybe you know how it goes with families, especially between brothers and sisters.  They are born of the same parents but when they all get older, over the legal age of 18 years of age, they all go their own ways.  It happens all over the world.  In America, China, Russia, Canada, Mexico, etc, etc, etc.  It is an unwritten part of life.  At first there is the playing of games when living together as children, and then there is the grown-up world where games become fewer and fewer until all there is for the brothers and sisters is the serious games of human survival, which means it is every person for himself or herself in a dog eat dog world.

 There are always those family holidays for some families like Thanksgiving and Christmas in some countries when some family members are seated around a big table and there is plenty of food to eat and maybe a movie to watch or maybe a football game.  But during the year, there might be silence as each brother and sister have to combat the world and plays its serious games of getting a university degree in something, and then finding a job to make money, and if babies are being made, there is no time left for anything else except for the unconscious breathing that takes place with every motion of the lungs.

 The problems with brothers and sisters, especially in large families, is not only family politics, but brothers and sisters know each other too well, like they know stuff that the outside world is not supposed to know about people, even in grade school, or high school, or maybe even in college or in the university.  Plus, there are always those family secrets like hidden violence or some other immoral act that may take place in some families.

 But truth be told, while each brother and sister, whatever the case may be, while they are separated by their own life adventures, and their own decisions, they are also divided by space and time itself on planet earth.  That is correct!  Just like the planets that are revolving around the sun within their own space-time universe, so too are those brothers and sisters that are revolving around the space and time on the planet earth.  And man, time moves really fast on planet earth too.  One moment everyone is young, and then like in a puff of smoke, 50 or 60 or 100 years goes by and then it seems like everyone in that family of brothers and sisters turns older, and not only are they getting older, they know it.  They feel it too.

 They also know that all of their so-called friends and co-workers that they have met, hung out with, worked with, and partied with are all off into the sunset of their own deaths, because death is something everyone has to deal with within their own lives, and within the lives of their brothers and sisters too.  Everyone has lost a friend to death, but to lose a brother or sister to death is something altogether different.  A lifetime of blood ties is gone to the afterlife.  But with one phone call on a birthday, blood may still be thicker than water!  And it may be thicker than death too.  Let us hope so for all brothers and sisters who still live on planet earth.