Part 1 : Relationships as the times change !

well i really dunno if i should talk about the ambivalent feelings runnin in my mind as in all probabilities you might find this post little weird,stupid and utterly pointless.but,i think i should share my thoughts as i have always felt the need for a discussion on such a topic.

how many of us have felt that slowly and without our knowledge we are all growing into individuals who are increasingly becoming apathetic towards our relatives,family etc. how many of us have felt the need to get back to our cousins with whom we had literally grown up n played during every festivity! the situtaion becomes bad when ur gud ol' cousin gets settled abroad r even worse when ur aunt gives birth after goin there ! well maybe an aunt is too close an acquaintance to loose contacts with, so easily. but ur family is just not limited to ur immediate aunts n uncles..what about ur father's aunts ,ur mother's uncles....k now pls wipe tat smirk off ur face as i am sure u must be thinkin wat the hell am i talkin about.u must be wonderin tat when its soo difficult to reach out to our immediate cousins in this busy world(...oh! how i hate tat cliche), father's aunt r mother's uncle is well off on national geographic along with the dinosaurs r the dodos!!!...

ok...maybe there are a few exceptions amongst us...(and my earnest adulations to them!)now i take it for granted tat those of u who r readin this post agree tat the questions tat were raised before are valid in someway ! one common reason,tat i have come across(n pursued to some extent),for such a gradual wearin down of the relationships is this: more often than not,all of us expect the iniative to come from the opposite side ! we tend to think tat if such a thought hasnt flown from the other side,then its almost next to crime to get them in us ! but what gurantee is there that ur acquaintance too wont be thinkin on those lines..in such a situation do u think its ever possible to live with them in the way you thought you should be???

is the world going to be a place where one's family is limited just to his/her father , mother, wife/ husband and children?

are close friends going to take positions of our relatives?(well we don wan someone who is all smiles whenever we meet ,n talks vehemently to us just because we have the same blood flowin in our veins !).

most importantly is it worth at all to take pains in givin a damn about our relations?

anyway,with these questions i wud like to end the first part of this post...the second part will follow soon ! but before that i would love to hear your comments on some of the questions i have raised..........