Telephone

We've all played the game telephone at some point in our lives; where one person whispers a message in the ear of the person next to them...who does the same and down the line the message goes getting twisted and turned all the while. I've played the game before but never until now did I really experience it happen in real life.

I was talking to a friend from New York. She said "I heard your sister and her family had to come back from Jordan because your bro-in law's father is very ill" and "they might not be able to get back into the country for some reason and may have to move back to the states". Half of me was mad that Jessica, my sister, might actually be in the states but I heard it through a friend who heard it from a friend who was a former roommate of my bro-in-law's sister...instead of from my own family telling me. Then another part of was thinking this can't be true, but how in the heck can a story get so far from reality?

I called my parents, I emailed my sister (instead of calling, because it is seven hours later in Jordan) and lastly I emailed my bro-in-laws sister. It turns out the only part of the story that is true is that my bro-in-laws dad is sick...but where did the rest of the story come from? Here I was getting all worried that my sister and her family wouldn't be allowed to move back to Jordan when they know that it is their life goal to do so...and then part of me is thinking...Yeeha my sister will at least be in the same country as me...and all these feelings well up in me...and somehow it was all just a big game of telephone.