The Connection

This is something my Mom, nor my Dad, nor Myself have ever called our family. We’re a loving family, full of direction, understanding, and guidance, but we’re also a social family. Every summer night you’re bound to find a few neighbours in our driveway chatting, or some out back grilling with, etc.

My parents have always encouraged me having an abundance of friends, and they’ve always told me to go out into the world to learn, explore, and most of all listen. I’ve never seen my parents as friends. Their my parents, and that’s it. I respect them, I like doing things with them, but they’re not my best buds.

My parents would say the same. I’m not their pal, I’m their son, and they treat me like I am. My parents love people, and they’ve definitely passed that on to me. Also our neighbours like us, we help them with things, and we enjoy talking to most of them.

Another thing that I’ve never been subjected to is shelter. Shelter in the sense of censorship, not talking to people, not watching the news, etc. My family strongly believes that censorship is wrong, and that an over sheltered child will have quite a shock when the real world comes knocking.

I’m sure I’ll have more on family matters in the future, but I wanted write this as a framework for my future family stories.

Thanks for reading!!

Joshua Duffy

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