Some have better relationships farther away than people that have there family living close in their area. Others don’t have as good relationships with their family as others do. The author says,” We travel long distances in order for grandchildren and grandparents to spend time together, and we often lose our old friends we will never see again.” The author is explaining how he feels when he says we travel long distances. Some people again have a better relationship from far away because when you only see them a little bit, when you visit next time, you miss your family and everyone there where your visiting. People like the privacy and distance away from their family because it can be quiet without your family with you all the time. There is better things being with your family, but there is also some better things without your family with you all the time. Some people travel to see their family every summer, and if you see your family every summer, it can get really expensive to fly out to see your family. That is why it can be good making your family come to see you sometimes instead of going out to see them every summer. If you can’t see your family, some people will use facetime or skype to talk to their family. But again, some people don’t have the good technology that some other families might have. Again though, you must have time to visit, you have to plan it out and sometimes it is hard to get the time off that you …show more content…
My cousins feel like strangers because they live so far away due because they are stuck there because they like the distance away from our family. All of my family lives back east so sometimes it is hard to get back there. On bad days, when you travel back east during the winter time, there can be weather issues such as bad snow storms back east and your flight can get delayed due to the severe storms. It is bad for family living back east due to you only see your family once a year usually because your always busy. Than if you decide to only go back once a year, your family begins to act like strangers and then it all goes downhill if you don’t communicate with your family. Your relationships with your family won’t go well because if you don’t communicate with your family, or don’t visit them a lot it will be bad and your family will become strangers. Another reason sometimes we don’t want to see our families, is the long 8 hours of a flight just to see our family members if they live back east. Than it isn’t just the flight there, when you fly back it’s another 8 hour flight so it is a combined 16 hours of flight