The human psyche is a wholly uncertain creature, particularly when such crucial and difficult topics as life and death are involved. In this story the woman by the age of 20, had lost nearly all of her family members. She was basically alone in the world, having progressively lost all of her loved ones. Obviously, this altered her perspective of family values and resulted in disagreements with friends and acquaintances on a regular basis. Read the story to know what conflict took place between she and her friend and let us know what are your thoughts about it.
Source: Reddit
Over the last 20 years everyone in my close family has died. Both my parents are gone, my grandparents on both sides, all my dad’s uncles, and anyone who is still alive are scattered out among the country. All I(20f) have left is my siblings and my BIL.
My friend (23f) comes from a different family. All the uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents have monthly parties, stay in touch, have big celebrations, the works. All of them are still alive and active.
I think she knows I’m sensitive to the topic as I wish I had a big family, as she sometimes makes these comments like ‘You know when you get married your guest list will be so small compared to mine…but hey at least it will be cheap!’ At my mom’s funeral there were still a lot of open chairs and she told me if this was a family member of hers all the seats would be full. (She is aware of my many, many deceased family members)
I took some pictures of me, my siblings, and my BIL cooking for Thanksgiving and us playing games at the dinner table and posted them on social media. She texted me privately saying we looked like we were having fun, followed by pics of her huge family, and remarked the dinner table was full of family. This is where I may be the a**hole, I replied, lovely! Have fun, we’d have a full table too but with the snow it was too hard to dig everyone out of their graves.
She was silent for a few hours then replied that the joke was morbid and made her uncomfortable, and I really need to check my attitude. Did I go too far here?
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