Should someone in a traditional role have the right to change and step outside that imaginary box? Change, in that question, is a very powerful word because sometimes there is no controlling it. However, that does not mean it is a negative thing because it might just be different from the norm.
To me my grandparents were like every other normal grandparent on the block – or maybe not! Growing up, every other weekend my grandparents would have a family dinner/poker night with a buy in of fifty dollars or more. This kind of ‘family game night’ allowed us grandkids to get away with all kinds of mischief. We would spy on the adults playing poker at the dining room table. Once they had a few beverages (wink, wink) we would hear the funniest and craziest stories about their childhood. Meanwhile, in the family room some of my cousins would be making paper airplanes and lighting them on fire before the send off. We would get in so much trouble; well I personally did not since I was one of the youngest of the grandkids and I had puppy-dog-eyes down. I will say that all of us grandkids learned to play poker and show no mercy in regards to betting.
We not only learned the game but this was a nontraditional role for the adults to provided pure entrainment through family stories, which I loved. Does this mean I should repeat everything I heard and saw from spying when telling my stories? Hell yeah!
Bluffing. I may be a betting woman but that does not make me an irresponsible one. Our heritage, traditions, and events in the past even if it is a love/hate relationship still requires respect when we allow it to breathe in the telling. Does someone in a traditional role have the right to change and step outside that imaginary box? The hand dealt to me is telling me yes. What is your hand telling you?
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