some old wounds have opened up this past week,

spent a week with family. 

human relations are a commodity.

there is no such true friendship, etc. 

you are worth as much as you are of use to someone else. 

use would mean, 

how someone relates to you,

how someone can talk to you or share their world views with you,

how someone can unburden their frustration,

how someone feels that you will always come through for them, no matter what! 

how someone feels that a failure of a get together is your failure to gather people time and time again,

how someone thinks of you as skilled and efficient, intelligent, etc (always ask yourself, with respect to what.. when you hear this one),
or sometimes,

how someone thinks more of you because you are someone to someone,

and so on.

and this includes family.

beware for in being a good friend, brother, son, nephew, classmate, acquaintance, etc. you extend beyond your boundaries to make sure you live up to your image, and it is in that, you will be exploited! until next time, ad the next, and so on.