I try to think of my relatives as practice, or lessons. I have a hard time just telling my grandfather hello, he's such an a**, so I kind of see him as an honestly brilliant and admirable person who reached his goals and switched off. No need to learn anything more, or create compromises with others, or fire up the old brain at all, when you become a CEO, and even less need after retirement. So I figure if I can be civil to HIM, I can be civil to any supervisor or manager at whatever job in my own life. That's the theory, at least. Haven't quite managed to put it into practice effectively. I just don't toe the line very well, at least without having some notion of what the line's for and what the purpose of me standing on it is. xD
A thought about "family"... you've heard the expression, "keep your friends close, your enemies closer", yes? Hard to get much closer than being related.
I suspect holidays always involve lots of food because it's harder to snipe at one another when your mouth's full. Add enough wine (and a few shots of scotch/gin/tequila/pick a liquor), and everyone can pretend the next day that they don't remember what was said (and we've all got at least one relative who doesn't have to pretend)!
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I suspect holidays always involve lots of food because it's harder to snipe at one another when your mouth's full. Add enough wine (and a few shots of scotch/gin/tequila/pick a liquor), and everyone can pretend the next day that they don't remember what was said (and we've all got at least one relative who doesn't have to pretend)!
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