Keep your friends close...

No Grey’s Anatomy this week.

But I did watch an old episode with Fin, the vet. I forgot how gorgeous he was.
After last week’s weird AA edition of Heroes, this week followed up with a nice story about reconnecting with your family. A coincidence that recovery from drug and alcohol addiction are strongly influenced by the presence of a stable support system? Yes, probably, but it makes for a good point, I believe. In this episode of Heroes, Claire’s family is reunited. By the end of the episode Claire, her biological grandmother, father and uncle (who there’s weird sexual chemistry with because they’re dating in real life, were all there together. Even her adoptive dad was there, despite the “am I evil or not?” thing he’s been going through. But then again, he really had no where else to go after he assaulted his own wife and almost killed her and then killed an innocent man in front of everyone he worked with, both because he thought it was Sylar. Oh but in the last case it really was and Sylar just ‘played dead’ for a while. Okay, back to what I was saying about family. It really was a nice way to end the episode, except for the fact that apparently they all got together to dig up hundreds of dead bodies which Claire’s grandmother had something to do with. Other than that, the family reconnection theme was really nice and I think it’s a good point.

My uncle is in town this weekend and I’m excited because I only see him about twice a year. I think keeping in touch with family is really important and it’s often forgotten in today’s society. We have become so detached from one another and so ingrained with this because we have become so detached and so ingrained in this capitalistic, individualistic attitude that we isolate ourselves. Family and friends are important and I wish we could remember that more often. Other societies realize this and if we weren’t so ethnocentric, we would learn from others.

This is a bit of a shorter post because I have to get ready to see my uncle!

And one last note- If there's something you have wanted to say to someone, to let someone know how important they are to you, tell them how much they mean to you- stop putting it off before it's too late. It can be quite liberating. Appreciate those around you.


With sincere thoughts,
Pearl