The black sheep doing good.
My review of 2025
If there is anything that I have learnt about myself between December 2024 and now, it's the fact that I am the black sheep of my family. In August 2024, my mother told me 6 total consecutive lies on WhatsApp that I have already made a blog about. I also unfortunately have a sister who unbeknownst to me decided to end all communications to me because she claims that all I ever do is shout at people, even thought I only ever shout in very specific situations. 2024 was a year where I was practically demonized for emotions that were natural to me at the time, but for some reason, my family wants to make my feelings look an sound like it was some kind of deliberate circus act.
It's sad how family members can just cross you out just because of some unfortunate conflicts. However, I received hope. In January 2025, I received call in response to my request for counselling that I made to a clinician during a video call medical appointment. I was invited to receive 6 weekly counselling sessions from the start of February to mid-March of that year, where I discussed in detail all of the difficulties that I had at the time. During that time I realized that I had to accept how dysfunctional my family can be and that I had to forgive them for their dysfunctions.
After some of the counselling sessions, I decided to visit my local gym for a brief workout. I realized for the first time in my life that a brief workout can actually be good therapy. Training your body certainly does something to temporarily get you mind of some of the negative stuff happening in your life.
After the 6 week counselling period ended I would look for some kind of community where the people also felt like the black sheep of their family. Luckily for me, in August 2025, I found 2 Facebook groups about being the black sheep of the family, where I would be able to learn about the troubling and sometimes grievous problems that other people would have with their families. This moment gave me the confirmation that I was not alone in the experience of being singled out of their own families.
However, in September 2025, I finally received what I had waited 13 months for. After mentioning all of the lies that she told me in August 2024, she understood everything and gave me an apology for the falsehood that she gave to me in those 2 audio clips on WhatsApp.
After this moment, I announced it on my richarddavislifeblog Instagram page and all was well again between the two of us.
The last 17 months have been emotionally tough on me as I felt that my dignity was severely attacked by my own mother, making me feel both out of place in my own family and society at large. However, on New Year's day 2026, I visited my parents' house for the first time since April 2024 for a pleasant family dinner to celebrate the new year which ended with a nice private conversation about travelling abroad in the hopefully not too distant future.
Hopefully, in 2026, I gain for of a belonging to my family and to society as well as I hope to not feel like such a black sheep to the family again.
