Brothers and sisters are generally referred to as the first friends of our childhood, and in this way we sometimes end up, unjustly, forgetting the value that our cousins have in the first games, in the first exchanges and in the first affections.
Let’s say that friendship between cousins is a special friendship within our family, this means that even if they are not part of our daily lives, they still manage to have a privileged place in our thinking, in addition to being deeply engraved forever in our hearts. Memories.
- Anyone who has had the taste and pleasure of growing up with cousins by their side knows how long the long-held encounters come.
- The afternoons of games.
- The stories to tell.
- The nights to talk for hours.
- The fights and the peace.
- That are being done are desired in front of adults.
Apologize and shake hands?! our parents and uncles said. How hard it was to finally shake hands, but after that, how quickly we’d forget about the fights!Because when we were kids, we knew every second of the game is a precious treasure we couldn’t miss, and having a tantrum meant exactly that.
Time was worth it and the openings were not worth it, because moments of pleasure were lost next to our cousins, because at any time the call for dinner or to leave arrived.
Together with our cousins, we have learned to connect beyond the limits of our safe home, beyond daily norms and daily destiny, even moving away from reality to enter a world of dreams that has made us fly to places full of fantasy and pleasure.
The evenings of play and shared secrets have made these moments of our childhood memorable, we have learned to share, to resolve conflicts, to wipe away tears, to listen, to heal wounds, to make perfumes with flowers, to find treasures, to find precious nature and to obtain an emotional wisdom that reflects the existence of a connection as special as that established among the children of the brothers.
The relationship between parents and uncles is usually reflected in the climate that eventually develops in the games and in the relationships between their own cousins, so, although the brothers usually spend time together, they end up helping to create a lasting and well-established relationship, without needing conflicts between their children that can sometimes obscure the beauty of this stage and time.
Over the years, a particular complicity develops between the cousins that becomes a unique emotional permanence, we know that they are there even if we do not see them, we are aware that physical distance cannot affect that feeling, and we can support and help each one. others no doubt or hesitation.
If this relationship is deeply rooted, it can last a lifetime, becoming a wonderful friendship within the family tree, a friendship that helps us draw extreme complicity, like a dessert so tasty that it even makes us smile, sometimes nostalgia, yes, but above all happiness. Happiness that marks a life and many stages, a joy that cannot be erased and that will always bring in our hearts the beauty of having our cousins with us.