One day, I heard about an old friend of mine, 68 years old, who had kidney problems and who had no money to buy medicine. So I gave her a little money. I was shocked by her response.
She began to cry buckets of tears, thanking me to the high heavens. I said, “Uh, you may have misread the check I gave you. I didn’t
give you P100,000. Just a tiny amount.”
But she explained that it wasn’t the amount. She said, “It’s strange that you’re helping me, yet none of my siblings have ever helped me. I have a brother who is a doctor, and yet not once did he give me money so I could buy medicine.”
I asked, “Don’t you see each other? Don’t they visit you?”
She shook her head, tears rolling down her cheeks. “We don’t see each other.”
That day, I felt very sad because I knew some of her siblings well. They were decent human beings. What happened?
This is the virus called relationship drift. It affects all kinds of relationships—marriages, parent-child relationships, sibling relationships. . . Ithappens when we take each other for granted.
One of the siblings will have to say, “Ako ang taya!” If your siblings have drifted apart, gathering them regularly will take a lot of work.
Someone has to say, “I will sacrifice to organize our gatherings.”
He will be the one who will e-mail, call, text, and plan for the gatherings.
If you live in different countries, use technology to call up each other regularly.
I have a big question for you: Are your siblings your friends?
You are siblings by chance, but you can only be friends by choice. You didn’t choose your siblings, but you can choose to make your siblings your friends.
But like any other friendship, you have to invest in the relationship, or it will die.
Any relationship dies if you don’t water it with attention and give it the sunshine of time.
Work on them!
Give regularly and gather regularly.
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