Archive for July 29th, 2010

When one is a child, one lives immersed in the family ambience. For the ones who were lucky, this ambience emanates warm sympathy. Although there might be moments of tension, fights and misunderstanding, family fulfills the basic need of being part of a community; it’s a small group in which one can feel “at home”, where one is known and knows.

Each family has its own characteristic style, which is like a mark of its existence, a style created by its members but certainly mostly imprinted by the parents. Memories of fun time and experiences make the affective richness that nourishes a group from within, and grants it its survival, in spite of the harsh rocks against which relationships are thrown when they fell in the sea of incomprehension.
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