Recently I took a long trip back home to see my family. The Lee family are a pretty large family and so maybe you’ve met and been stressed by a few of us Lees in your past, especially Emotional Lee, Physical Lee and Mental Lee. A lot of people have been robbed blind by my brother Financial Lee. I get a bit of grief from Spiritual Lee who thinks he should have been the family priest. I’m pretty alright with the family, except maybe Psychological Lee. Us Lees got off to a good start and my parent’s named their first-born girl Prima, which is Latin for “first” naturally. Prima Lee was our family’s pride and joy. Unfortunately Prima married into the Donna family and now she thinks she’s too good for us.
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But none of my family made my life so difficult as my brother Ug. When I was old enough to date women, I never did; but it wasn’t my fault; it was Ug’s fault! We didn’t even look alike, but whenever I asked out any of all the women who all refused to go on a date with me “Why won’t you go out with me?” they all said “Because you’re Ug Lee!” so I had to explain “No! I’m his little brother! Brendan Lee!” but for some reason they never believed me! Some girls even said “You’re actually very Ug Lee!” which doesn’t even make sense and only proves that some people want to live a life of delusion.
Actually, none of my siblings have strange names. Actually, what is a strange name these days? Your family is like some names; they may appear strange to others, but they should never become strange to you. If your family or some of your family members have become strange, in a way, it’s because we are not spending enough time with them. Even if they’re covered head to foot in tattoos, thousands of body piercings and walking around in a garbage bag (I’m definitely not criticising tattoos or body piercings here), if they are in our family then we should be in contact with them. We don’t have to agree with them but we do need to keep some contact with them because we have to love our family and you cannot love what you do not know. What and who you don’t know will always end up “strange” to you.
Sometimes we’ll be so angry with someone in our family that we start bagging them out to someone outside the family. We shouldn’t do this, but hey, I’m not squeaky clean on this one. When I was a boy this other boy I knew was really criticising his family that I knew too. To console him I joined in on the insults. Too my surprise he shouted at me “I can bag out my family Lee, but you can’t bag out my family!”. As unfair as this may seem, I think he is right.
If you’ve ever been in trouble in life, especially massive trouble, whom did you turn to? Possibly your family. If it was “life and death” stuff, who did come to your aid? Probably your family.
I’ve been musing on how beautiful and fitting it is that the two people who did what almost all people since the very first people before them wanted to do but could not, was done by two brothers; that is, fly. The Wright brothers must have at times wanted to strangle each other in their frustratingly hopeless attempts to fly. But who but your family will put up with your tantrums?
Nobody can make you so angry and bitter as a brother or sister, but that’s only because deep down you love them so much.The friends of Jesus were sometimes referred to in the Bible as his brothers and sisters, even though they weren’t biologically. It was a form of friendly slang, just like today, because to call someone your brother or sister or your sis or your bro is still in 2016 and will always be, the ultimate compliment.