Family

Today, I attended a family lunch for some visiting relatives from USA. How wonderful it sounds - a FAMILY lunch. Family. Someone (I can't remember who) once said that we can't choose the family we are born into, but we can choose how we relate to each member.

We had a wonderful time today at lunch. We shared and updated each other and it did not matter that some were Americans and others Malaysians ... we were a family. We may be different outwardly, but we have the same blood in our veins. Some may be just a drop, but a drop is a drop. And, if not in the blood, then certainly in our lives and in our shared memories and shared pasts. We are interlinked and interrelated. NO CHOICE! We are all a part of this family of dotting and wonderful aunts and uncles and crazy cousins ... some crazier than others.

As the Chinese New Year approaches and we prepare for family reunions, do give thanks for your family. Whatever has happened, let it be in the past and enjoy each other for today and for the year.

Xin Nian Kuai Le.

God bless our Chinese New Year of the Rabbit.