The reason I chose The Fifth Tuesday is because, at the end of the day, a family is all you got. Friends come and go. Boyfriends or girlfriends never really stay. Siblings may be -- no, always are -- annoying, but they will always be there. A family is the only reason we exist. That we know how to read or write. That we know wrong from right. That we know how to love.
I know that everyone has some sort of family. Dead. Abandoned. Adopted. None of the above. For most people, we treat our family differently than we do other people. Another thing I knew before I read The Fifth Tuesday was: you don't get to pick family. My mother believes that God makes it so you have him or her as a sibling because you have something worse to deal with in your life. And you need to learn how to deal with it calmly and collected.
One thing I contemplated while I was reading this chapter was the fact that family can lose touch. We lose touch with our siblings if we weren't raised in harmony (or as much harmony as can possibly be provided in childhood with siblings). We lose touch with old school friends that we were once really close with. It just happens, and we always ask, "Why?"
Albom learns that Morrie fills the hole his brother, Peter, created when he became distant after Peter got cancer. Albom realized that he had lost touch with his brother and he needed to try to contact him again. I think that Albom knew that he was losing touch, but is sorta like growing taller -- you just don't notice.
I'm not gonna lie -- my relationship with my brother is worse than the norm. Maybe I'm expecting too much from him, but I don't think so. He's 18! He needs to start acting like it. OK, I'll try to think objectively about this. Anyway -- so even if I don't have the best relationship with my brother, I need to stay in touch. That's what I learned from this chapter. You need to stay in touch or you'll end up going to their funeral with regret (I believe I've already ranted on this subject). 2 Peter 1:7 says, "...and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love."
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Não FicçãoI advise you read "Tuesday's with Morrie" before reading my book of wisdom. I don't know if you'll completely understand it if you don't. However, you don't have to. This book is about wisdom and only wisdom.
