Necessity of Relationships in life! Friends vs Relatives!

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Hello fellow Hivians, hope you are all doing well. Everyone's life is not complete with relationships, either it maybe friends or relatives. The part they play in our life is valuable. There was a time when I used to think relatives are the worst and they are with you just because of your money. On the contrary to my child brain, it proved me wrong. Let's dive in to the life of a person with friends and relatives.

In my childhood, I had very few friends and more relatives who are from my mother side. Most of the people have large number of their mother side relatives only here in India. I'm a bit of shy and I don't go out much, maybe because it my interaction with the relatives is far less compared to my siblings.

At that time every once in a week atleast one member of our mother side relative will visit us. Maybe because almost all of them lives in villages and if anything is needed they have to come to town to pick it up. In the way they cross with us just for the sake of visiting.

On the other hand my friend circle is small. Even though I have very few friends, daily we will go out in the morning times to play cricket and volleyball. We play until we tired and come back home on our bicycles to get ready and go to school. After school too we used play in the grounds. These all began after I completed my 7th class.

Due to the engineering we lost touch with my school friends and made new friends in engineering. These friends and two or three from school are still together. Once a week we call each other and asks about how we are doing with work and family and share everything.

After adulthood, responsibilities became a burden and due to some health conditions when my mother was in hospital, you know who took care of her when I'm not with her, relatives. Yes you heard it correct. At that time, I need to be there woth my mother and needs to go for the payments of hospital and medicines and all the tests reports.

In between these times, relatives are the one who take care of her. After her operation, she was with them for about a month. They took care of her nicely. All these time I was wrong to assume that the relatives are the blood sucking vampires who suck only money.

On this side friends helped me with money I need to adjust for the operation. They constantly persuing about my mother health and asked me if I need any money and came to see her when she was in the hospital, even though we were at so much distance. One single moment of this health issue made me realise that both friends and relatives are very important to us to lead a better and secured life.

Between those two there is no telling that which one is great and first and which one is second. With my situation at hand I realised that the money I took from my friends can be repaid, but the care relatives showed on my mother cannot be repaid in terms of money. In my situation, relatives are great.

What do you think guys? Who do you think is great? Please let me know in the comment section.