Doesn’t Really Matter

Looking through the crowd there are all types, the one home for a visit that you keep thinking needs their batteries removed so to say so others can get in a word edgewise, the sibling who wants to be anywhere else but here, and at the same time is so proud they came, Negative Nellie who knows more than anyone and will say anything to prove that she is correct and everyone else is wrong, and the matriarch of the whole bunch who was brought in to join the fun of the day.

Each family has their very own characters, and looking back over my lifetime there have been quite a few, there is always the loner who sits in the corner and speaks to no one, you always have to beg them to come, the drinker who overindulges and says things that really shouldn’t have been said at the time, the preacher who is giving that old evil eye to the drinker while he is attempting to save the loner, while overlooking his own salvation, and the stutterer who fights so hard to get their words out before everyone else finishes the sentences first.

Then there are the kids who learned all they know from these adults, Little Nellie is confiscating all the toys while screaming that they were hers first, the lanky kid in the middle of the crowd is talking so fast not a soul knows what he is saying but yet they listen in amazement of what may be learned, a couple kids hide around the corner attempting to light cigarette butts, while another tells them how they are going to get burned and into so much trouble if they don’t listen to him, but yet there is always a group who play well together while keeping the rest out.

Characters are what this country is made of, each and everyone of us have characters in our family or either we are the character, we sit back and talk about these people and their stories go on for years, there is a lot of laughter spent at their expense and this will never change, but just for fun I wonder what exact trait of mine the characters in my family are laughing about today, or is it that I am the character, doesn’t really matter does it.