So the longer I'm waiting for a reunion the more I have to think about how I think. In the journey I have been introduced to some amazing people but also some opinionated people. I sometime wonder if as adoptees many of us just want to get up and scream, I'm important, I'm worth something, and there are a number of adoptees who I don't agree with.
I think that many of us are happy and well adjusted people, people who were brought into a good and loving home without problems that families don't have. See, families are made up of imperfect people all with issues and joys. Sometime families are hard, sometimes easy, but whether that family was connected by blood or by court order, the problems can happen in either.
I was adopted into the family that God had chosen for me and in His plan made me into the person I am today. I also have non vocal adoptee friends who feel the same way.
So here is my soapbox. We are all dealt a hand to play with. Some are amazingly difficult and some are a royal flush without a care in the world. but all are what we have. We can either quit the game, gripe about our hand and make everyone around us miserable, or put on a poker face and play our hand. Yes there are many injustices to battle against and spoke out about. But our difficult hands are there to conform us, strengthen us and to enable us to help others in their struggle.
