WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 29, 1362
A 7
FAMILY
COUNCIL
Norbert T. - She's all I
have, and she has no time for
me!
Terry T.V. - He forgets that
I have a home and a job to
attend to.
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Norbert T. - I haven't seen
my sister for a year. My work
keeps me traveling. Bu' A'hen
I wrote her. a month ago, that
I'd arrive in her town now
and be able to stay three
weeks, she wrote back that
she'd be too busy to spend
much time with me. That's a
nice reception, I must sav.
from the only one I have left
in the world.
Just because a person is
married, she shouldn't crowd
out her own flesh and blood.
I have married friends I can
call on here, but that's not
the same. It's funny, though,
they have plenty of time to
put at my disposal, family
and all. It's only Terry whose
whole world would fall apart
I guess, if she took a few days
off for her brother.
Terry T.U. - Has a brother
the right to expect his mar
ried sister to fill all his family
requirements? As a single fel
low, Norbert has no idea of
the demands made upon me
by my husband, my home and
my five youngsters. In addi
tion, I'm a piano teacher in
our neighborhood music
school, and right now I'm in
charge of our summer music
festival.
When a man hasn't married
and has no wife and children
to return to. a sister and her
family can fill the bill a little.
Norbert writes to me or calls
me long distance, and I
answer. He knows he's alwavs
welcome for dinner, or to
spend an evening. But I can I
give him the 100 per cent at
tention a family of his own
could extend. I love mv
brother, but my family and
my job must come first.
The Council: Woe is he who
counts on others to "fill" his
life. The crux of that state
ment is "counts on," because
it implies desperation. Nor
bert's whole world oughtn't to
be falling apart because his
sister has urgent prior com
mitments. Over 200 years ago
the English dramatist, John
Gay, wrote out a sentence
which can serve as a useful
answer to Norbert. "There is
no dependence that can be
sure." he said in a letter to
Jonathan Swift, "except de
pendence upon one's self."
In the normal course of
events a man usually strikes
out to create a new family,
his own. In clinging to his
childhood family, his sister,
Norbert cannot expect the
same response as he'd be en
titled to if he turned to a
group he himself had es
tablished. For Terry, in turn,
has become part of a brave
new one herself now and, as
she says, her husband and
children and household com
mitments must have first
claim on her time and en
ergies. Since she also holds an
outside position, her freedom
of action is indeed minimal,
and Norbert should not add to
her pressures by his self-pity
and reproaches.
Possibly nothing would
please Norbert more than to
have Terry still single and at
his beck and call for com
panionship and care. Evident
ly he hasn't accepted the fact
that marriage changes 'he
availability, if not the affec
tion, of one's brothers and
sisters.
This doesn't mean, how
ever, that Terry shouldn't
move heaven and earth - well,
a rehearsal here and a birth
day party there - to include
Norbert on as many of her
appointed rounds as possible
during his precious three
weeks of being in or near her
bailiwick. Who knows hut
that he'll be a godsend when
there are six important er
rands to perform and only two
adults on tap to attempt them?
Maybe he'd love being asked
whether the Nocturne for Two
Pianos should be retained for
the concert, or scratched.
Loyalties exert pulls on us
all. In order to function effec
tively, we must "graduate"
those pulls in terms of their
rightful place in our lives.
Norbert must concede the pri
orities Terry points out to
him.
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