Family Man

If I were to fall in love with a woman, marry her, have a baby by her, many lives would immediately change. My one brother and my two sisters would become a little bit more than just that. My brother would now be the uncle of his new-born niece or nephew. My sister would become an aunt. Aunt-sister (Smile). My mother would become a grandmother. My grandmother would become a great-grandmother (a few times over as it stands). My father would become a grandfather. My grandfather would become a great-grandfather.
Mind you, all i would've done is made a baby, bought a new life into the world. Of course I wouldn't simply be Damian Lee any longer, either. I'd be a father. Thus, I'd have to become a father figure. Uncle-brother might be encouraged to become the role model he should be for his nephew or niece. If sis and bro had children of their own at this point in time, their children would become the cousins of my child.
So, falling in love, marrying and winding up with children would change many lives, whether I preferred it to or not. The changes which would've occurred couldn't possibly be ignored if I were in my right mind.
So, a grandmother and grandfather would have become a great-grandmother and great-grandfather; a mother and father would have become a grandmother and grandfather; Sisters would have become aunts; a brother would have become an uncle; and if my brother and sisters had children, their children would have become cousins to my child; and i would have become a father.
Do you see the connections there? These connections aren't by choice. They aren't by chance. They are a part of all families, whether ignored or not. And these connections also create obligations. The obligations, the connections, tend to lead to the formation of an unspoken-but-understood bond between family members...., in a perfect world of course.
These connections are based on blood relations. These bonds aren't determined by actions or inactions. They are based on blood! There is no wrong or correct way to be bound by blood. Hence the unconditional love; not a love conditioned on whether we are disappointed with each other or not; not determined by mistakes or the successes made by one's blood; not determined by anything other than the fact that, that family understands that they are all connected, like it or not, and none of them had anything to do with it.
Tell Mom you love her. Tell Dad you love him. Tell Sis you love her. Tell Bro you love him. Tell your nieces and nephews you love them. Tell Grandma and Grandpa you love them. Tell Great-Grandma and Grandpa you love them. Tell your children you love them. And tell them all regularly.
I miss and love my family......, MAN!
DON'T STOP!