Or we are all children of God. Accidents will happen in the best regulated families!!! There's a black mark in a family

I was going shopping. I left the house and immediately remembered that I had left the card in another bag. We'll have to go back...

- Forgot something, honey? “Our old ladies were sitting on a bench near the house. Apparently there weren’t enough topics to talk about in the morning, so my fussy behavior gave them a topic for another conversation.

- Yes, I forgot. Hello,” I picked up my bag and headed back to the entrance.

“Don’t forget to look in the mirror,” the advice of one of the trio rushed after me, otherwise it’s not good to go back...

Taking everything you need and... After looking in the mirror and making a funny face at myself, I went downstairs again.

The conversation was already different:

- That's how it all turned out. It’s not for nothing that they say: every family has its black sheep,” Irina Sergeevna looked with pity after the leaving man.

He swayed from side to side and muttered something as he did so. The trouser leg was torn on one side. I noticed the face... It seemed vaguely familiar to me.

- Didn’t you recognize it? This is Seryozhka, Leshkin’s brother. Completely drunk. Leshka treated him, coded him, and did everything he could... But he was such a good boy.

I peered at the retreating figure. Indeed, it was Seryozha. True, I haven’t seen him for a hundred years. I didn’t expect to see it in such a state.

“I’m telling you, there’s a black sheep in a family.” One brother is like that: a businessman... rich, important, and the second one seems to have shouldered all the sins of the family on himself,” Irina Sergeevna waved her hand in annoyance.

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families. Probably, a foreigner will never understand such an expression without a very scrupulous explanation. Yes, we ourselves do not quite understand and use it correctly.

Let's figure out where this expression came from.

In ancient times in Rus', family was not called, as we all now thought, a husband and wife, no.

A married couple was called a real full-fledged family only when they had their first child. Those. a child who became the first sprout of his Family. He was the crown of his Family. And if the first-born was also a boy, this was considered a particularly good sign.

The letter U (prefix) here means “near”, “near”, i.e. belonging to something. By the way, in contrast to the prefix “you”, which denotes the direction outward, removal.

And this catchphrase then has a very clear meaning: there is a black sheep in a family. Those. a real family always has a firstborn, i.e. a child standing by his Family. Like this.

But when did this expression change its meaning...

For the Family, the person responsible for his Family at a given moment in time is its crown. And, since we are all children of God, very often the child was called God’s gift. This child belonged to his Family in the same way as to the Family of God. Those. he was with God.

Hence the expression “poor”, i.e. under the protection and patronage of God.

Usually the holy fools were called wretched in Rus'. It was believed that God awarded them with a special vision of this world, completely inaccessible to mere mortals. It was not permissible to offend the holy fools; it was necessary to look after them and listen to their words. They carried God's message.

But, as you yourself understand, human mutilation is not pleasing to the eye. Defectiveness irritates and causes rejection. That is why the word freak (foolish fool, holy fool) came to mean a person with some kind of physical or mental disability.

Yes, by the way, a person who broke away from his Family and broke ties with it was called a degenerate in Rus'. Remember the prefix “you” - go out, leave. It was believed that such a person had departed not only from his Family, but also from God. Because at the head of any human race is God.

Here is another example of how the original meaning of an expression has changed its meaning over time.

I looked sadly after him leaving. But I remember him. He was a romantic, played the guitar...

I am always glad to see you on the pages of the site “I want to know everything”

Tell me, is there justice in the world? Why did the law of universal disgusting work specifically for me? They say that every family has its black sheep - so that’s about me. No, according to others, I am beautiful, very beautiful, oh, even too beautiful! BUT! I was born into a family of alphas - a beta. Wow... Really, it's a bummer?! Well, first things first.

My father is the most powerful alpha in the empire. He holds the post of head of the state security department. Practically, he is omnipotent. Almost everyone is afraid of him! Are you impressed?! But that's not all. I have three older brothers. Note that everyone is alpha. Their father persecutes them mercilessly. But the result is obvious. Three handsome young men, daring giants, all equally matched... Ugh! Something carried me away again. So, what am I talking about... Yeah, I remembered. So, my three older brothers are gorgeous alpha males. The most spectacular omegas salivate when looking at them. These three tyrants chose the safety of my father and me as their goal in life. But, since our dad is a rather unusual omega, and he can only be looked after at a great distance, they put all their efforts into raising my poor carcass. You say life is bad for omegas? Three times ha! You didn’t live as a beta in my family.

My dad is an incredibly handsome omega. His father will not get enough of him, despite the many years they have lived together. Despite the customs of the country, where the birth of ten children by an omega is considered the norm (after all, there are so few omegas), after the birth of three sons, the father personally took care of providing his beloved spouse with safe infusions to prevent pregnancy. According to him, his beloved husband is not an incubator on legs, but a delight to his father’s eyes. And for ten years he carefully took care of the health of his omega. As relatives and friends concluded, this approach had results. Dad blossomed.

How did I manage to be born into this crazy family? Oh, this is a dramatic story, completely covered with white spots of mystery. I don’t know what our father did, but dad left him. Can you imagine? It was my own husband who cheated the omnipotent of all things. They say that my father performed dances with a tambourine around my father for about a year, but finally persuaded him to return. It was as a result of these persuasions that I was born.

After my birth, an idyll reigned in the family. Remember when I said that almost everyone is afraid of their father? There are exceptions to any rule. In this case, the exception was dad and me. The formidable head of the state security department was plasticine in the hands of her husband. And for the first years of my adult life I felt like a teddy bear. All five of them tried to squeeze me. Nightmare! (I'm lying, I love them too!).

So in our family, all the alphas (Father - Ector, brothers - Eric, Eduard, Edward) all worked in the same state security department. Dad (again an exception to the rule - omegas practically did not work. And even when, with a bunch of children in his arms) worked as the director of the central branch of the capital's imperial bank. And I'm finishing school. And today there is a family council, on the agenda of which there is one question - WHERE TO SEND the child to study. Give them free rein, they would have locked me at home. After all, I am so small, fragile, and the world is so cruel. Well, yes, small (mine are 1.70m, versus my brother’s and father’s 2.0m, even my dad’s 1.85m), well, fragile (I honestly go to the gym, but my muscles don’t build. As my trainer says, I’m wiry). My brothers have a Nordic appearance, that is, they are blue-eyed, two-meter blond - like their father. And I’m a “scorching brunette”, I look like my dad. These despot brothers wear short hair, but they force me to have long hair. Oooh, sadists.

To be honest, I’ll tell you a secret, just don’t tell anyone, okay? So, for the last year I have been grateful to my parents that I am a beta. The omegas of our class, whose hormones had awakened in previous years, began to dance a jig. The alphas are ready to tear them apart with their bare hands. Horrible! As soon as one person's heat stops, another's starts. And we have thirty of them, as many as six. It's a mess, I'll tell you, it's still a mess. There are lessons when teachers only work with us betas, because omegas either before or after heat, alphas “train endurance,” and we, betas, don’t give a damn. HA!

Even in the school corridors, we stand out from the crowd with our neatness, our imperturbable calm, and restraint. And it doesn’t matter that we are a “dead-end branch”. For this purpose, there are three alphas in my family. So let them improve the demographic situation of the empire.

So today is family council. My father came up with a “bright idea” about the need to improve his core subjects before enrolling. When he found out that I had not yet decided where I would go, the end of the world began. Where dad is looking, what his brothers are thinking, a restless child (that’s me, if anyone doesn’t understand), it’s creepy.

I was fooling around and pouring out my thoughts to you. I'm sorry you had to listen to me. I’m just afraid to tell anyone from the family, otherwise it’ll be a mess. Because every family member considers himself obligated to ensure my happiness. At the same time, everyone sees this very happiness in their own way. I have nothing to say against, they all sincerely love me, but Gods, how hard it is to live up to their dreams of my beloved.

ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN IN THE BEST REGULATED FAMILIES
Wanting to justify the appearance of an ungodly person in a large family, we habitually say: well, it happens - there is a black mark in a family. Or let’s give it a different shade: in any company there is bound to be one unlucky person. But our language says differently: “freak” means standing “at the clan”, under its reliable protection and patronage. And that’s why “freak” used to be called not a sick disabled person, but the first child - the strongest, the most beautiful, the smartest, who took everything first and best from his young parents. And the couple was called a family only after the birth of their first child. “Uroda” means “beauty” in some Slavic languages. That is, initially the proverb had a very deep meaning: “without a child, this is not a family,” “a family cannot exist without its first child.” Thus, the whole village, all the relatives seemed to convince the young spouses to give birth to an heir as soon as possible in order to become a full-fledged family and increase the strength of their clan-tribe.

WORK MAKES HORSES DYING
How often do idle people use this expression! They like it. Although the full version of the saying goes like this: work makes horses die, but people grow stronger.

MY HUT IS ON THE EDGE
Incorrect interpretation: “move away, leave me alone, I don’t know anything.” Today we say this, but previously those people whose huts stood on the edge of the village had a special responsibility - they were the first to meet any danger, be it an attack by enemies, a forest fire, a spring flood of a river or a rapidly racing herd of horses. They were the ones who had to fight back. Therefore, the bravest and strongest people lived “in the huts on the edge.” When choosing a place for a house on the edge of the village, its owner seemed to be saying to his fellow villagers: “I will protect everyone’s peace.” The readiness for self-sacrifice has always been characteristic of the Russian people, which is captured in this proverb.

YOUR SHIRT IS CLOSER TO YOUR BODY
Yes, unfortunately, many contemporaries today have acquired the false belief that their own interest is most valuable, and nothing should harm personal gain. However, our ancestors pronounced these words in a completely different environment. At the funeral of a warrior who died honorably in battle, his brothers took off their linen or linen shirts and placed them in the grave - as close as possible to the body of the deceased relative. Thus they showed how much they loved him, how dear he was to them...

WORK IS NOT A WOLF - WILL NOT RUN INTO THE FOREST
“Take your time, lie down, rest, work will wait” - this is the meaning of this proverb in the modern Russian language. However, its original meaning was not at all to indulge one’s laziness by postponing important things for later. It was just the opposite! In the old days, when a wolf ran into a village, women and children immediately hid in their houses and waited for the animal to run into the forest. And their work, abandoned for a while, will not run away, will not go anywhere. Therefore, what to expect? As soon as the danger has passed, you must immediately begin work left in the garden, in the yard or around the house.

DO NOT OPEN YOUR MOUTH TO SOMEONE ELSE'S LOAF
“Everyone loves to eat someone else’s food for free” - we filled this proverb with such narrow and harmful content today. But the story here is again of the exact opposite nature. There used to be a custom: before everyone sat down at the table, the owner would go outside from the hut and shout loudly: “Is anyone hungry?” That is, the owner opened his mouth wide open and invited all the hungry to his loaf: neighbors, relatives, beggars, random passers-by. It’s no good when everyone eats, but someone remains hungry.

DEBT PAYMENT IS RED
Perhaps this is one of the most frequently used proverbs today: many creditors angrily demand that debtors give back what they have taken, calling them, harassing them, threatening them. Trouble, and that’s all... In fact, this proverb teaches you to forgive debts. Our wise ancestors acted in a simple-minded Christian way: when lending something to someone, they never expected a return, much less asked or demanded it. They were sincerely happy to help everyone in need just like that, without any self-interest. When the debt was finally returned, they blushed deeply: they were ashamed to accept it back.