Relatively strange - islands of families - strange cousin brother - from 'Notes' 1 September 2008

We become islands of privacy. Either by ourselves or by understanding that others do not want to meet us. And then, in a big paradox, we become addicts of networking, through internet websites. I tried to scare my closest cousin brother about meeting him on his birthday yesterday, and as expected, he sounded totally terrified about it. I can imagine the roundabout that he would have discussed with his father in generating excuses about not being able to meet or visit them to wish my cousin brother on his birthday. I merely wanted to enquire of the possibility of continuing the tradition between my father and his brother in visiting each other on birthdays and wishing one another. I was absolutely absolutely absolutely sure that I would get some excuse or the other about not meeting up on that day. I took a sheet of paper and wrote down the top five excuses that would come up. And I was wrong about the last four excuses, because the first one was the one told to me, in 2008, and later...

It makes me feel paranoid about people, friends and relationships. Sometimes, friends are much better. Some have stayed the test of time. SM-Khalsa, MA-Josephs, PR-HNCF, DS-CA, SAH-BNHS, SAT-BSAP and KR-AES. And some have not stayed in contact but they would bounce back, I know.

I could write names of friends who have maintained contact but then my crazy lunatic schizophrenic wife may break her tightened string and do something irretrievable and bad or alarmist.