The Bob Gentry Journal

What would you do if you found out you had a half brother or sister that you never knew existed?
Poll Answers

1. I’d want to meet him or her and try to start a relationship and catch up on lost time.
150 votes
2. I would not want to meet this person, I have enough siblings already.
11 votes
3. I’d be curious to meet him or her but that’s about it.
41 votes
4. I’d stalk them and learn all I can about them before suddenly showing up for Christmas dinner.
20 votes

Total Votes: 222

I know the poll has only been up for only 19 days but I’m going to take it down because I was told that the company who was providing the service just started to include a POP UP add on my journal–the bastards!! And so, that’s the end of that.

Anyway, It seems like most people would want to start up some sort of relationship. My next question would have been to those people… Do they come from large families, or are they an only child? I’m curious if that would have an effect on how they vote.

To me, all rational thought tells me that we make our own families and whether or not someone is blood related should make no difference. But then there’s that part of me that wonders if blood truly is thicker than water. I have quite a few mixed feelings on this subject.

I don’t think there’s a simple answer to the question above. At least for me… Knowing that I DO have siblings out there who don’t know I’m alive, I’d certainly love to meet them and get to know them if they’re open for that. Of course, I worry that they wouldn’t want to have anything to do with me and that I’d be looked at as an outsider…I worry about more than that too but those are the first things that come to mind.

I have some friends who were adopted and later in life searched for their biological parents only to be disappointed when they finally got their chance to meet dear old bio-Mom and bio-Dad. I guess we all tend to glamorize things we wonder about like that. Perhaps it’s best NOT knowing.

I could go on and on about this subject…Someday I will open up a bit more and write a book. But right now, I don’t know what the ending will be like. I’ll find out someday though…Perhaps within the next few years even. Meanwhile, my life continues to be a soap opera.

The bottom line to all this for me is…I realize the cards we are dealt in life shape the people we become and I like who I am (even though I might not be playing with full deck at times)…I can still build my card house with a few jokers regardless. So what if there’s a few open empty seats at the table… I know that I leave an open invite to the missing.

End of Deep Thoughts for the day…By the way…

I’m related to you, I just didn’t know how to tell you…Now remember me at Christmas