The Thirty-Sixth Question: In Your Family
Looking at the jobs we have as a member of our family unit, biological, chosen, or other.
It was bound to happen eventually.
I wanted to believe it would never happen to me. That I had finally found a way to avoid it, a foolproof system for delivery.
But, alas, best laid plans.
Yup, I missed a week.
Oops!
On what marks the 37th week of the existence of this newsletter, I’m sending you our 36th question. Did you notice? Probably not. If I’m being honest, I didn’t either. Amidst all the travel I had going on last month I had, smartly, scheduled October’s questions in advance (hope you enjoyed those!). So what happened when it was time to return to weekly drafting? I forgot. The habit had been broken for weeks, and I lost the muscle memory. What’s that old rule of thumb, that it takes 21 days to break a habit? Going >21 days without sitting at my laptop to write any edition of this newsletter clearly had an impact.
Can’t change the past, but time to get back to it.
How has your role in your family changed over the years?
As we draw closer to Thanksgiving, I thought I’d ask some questions pertinent to two things that tend to be big topics of conversation around this holiday: family and gratitude (next week). Whether your family is biological or chosen, we all have a role that we play. It need not be a consistent role either. It can shift and evolve as we evolve. That’s what I want you think to think about this week.
Some ways to parse that subject:
Are these changes you’ve actively facilitated, or have they been externally driven?
If you could reshape this role, what would that look like?
If you stopped playing this role, what impact would that have on you? On the others in your family?
What roles are played by other members of your family, and how do they impact you?
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It’s good to be back with you. Happy journaling!