Warring Siblings

By Stanley Collymore

Okay! So we’re biologically related, and that isn’t 
my doing; or was it ever a matter in dispute as 
we have the same biological parents and 
therefore are undoubtedly siblings 
who’re unquestionably naturally 
related to each other. But these 
factors in themselves don’t, won’t or shouldn’t 
automatically make us clones of each other, 
and specifically so in our thinking. For 
we are in essence fundamentally 
different persons and not only 
how we noticeably look in 
visible terms but likewise 
too to how we normally
respond to numerous 
things meaningfully 
and that reasonably, 
practically, and 
level-headedly 
in adult terms 
is definitely 
how it really 
ought to be.

So give me a break please in terms of your constant, 
unwarranted and offensive criticisms, as well as 
your never-ending condemnations of me! 
And in doing so hopefully as well stop 
your irrational trying to change our 
established familial rule book 
into something to suit your own personal, arrogant 
and rather narcissistic ends. And actually doing 
so by idiotically claiming that although you 
freely accept that we’re close biological 
relatives and therefore indisputably 
even siblings, our, prescribed by 
you, insoluble differences in 
opinion over some matters 
you consider as essential 
accordingly determine 
and even necessitate 
that we either can’t 
or shouldn’t even 
aptly be friends.

© Stanley V. Collymore
24 August 2019.


Author’s Remarks:
Families! The imponderable problem isn’t it? An established worrisome conundrum and state of affairs in which many of us experience multiple disagreements with some or even all of them at some time or other, while for other family groups it’s simply plain sailing, an uncomplicated case of the sun shining out of each other’s backside, so to speak, and there’s not a solitary care in the world as regards their inter-familial relationships let alone any serious problems emanating from them.

So how does this happen, and what’s the binding solution for universal family harmony? Respect for each other, love and basic understanding I guess. But if in the meantime you personally come up with a fool proof solution to this perennial predicament and familial quandary then let the rest of us know. But prior to that, and unless you’re saintly altruistic, patent it first, as I’m pretty confident it’ll be a money-spinner for you for sure!

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