There are certain politics to life that you learn as you grow up. People politics. You don't really realize when you're little how much they are a part of life. Take family relationships, for instance. Who you invite to a family event may not just depend on what type of relation it is. It also could depend on whether they invited you to the last event, sent a card or didn't send a card, saw you in a store and made an effort talk or ran away instead, and the list could get more and more detailed. And then you can't really invite an aunt without inviting her kids, unless her kids did something to obviously snub you at a past event, in which case everyone would know why they weren't invited... It's all just very confusing. Our family's not even that complicated and we run into these politics.
It's almost like a dance. You have to learn the correct way to react and handle certain situations--because there is a correct way. One wrong step in the 'dance' and you might upset the cycle and cause the politics to start, even though it was an accident.
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