One of the most important thing taken for granted!!!

In the course of life we meet different kind of people.some we are friends with and some we despise.
If you go on to see the friend list..boy its really mammoth.to begin with the friends you made in your childhood days, at school, college, 1st job, 2nd job etc etc, not to forget social networking friends.
We try very hard to keep up with the people whom we have short listed from the above list.
we take out time from our schedule to meet them the second we are free.
In doing so, many  a times we forget that we dont' spend enough time with our family.
Its like...that particular part of life is neglected.
Many of you wont agree with me on this.
Its so often that we make plans to meet our friends in a flash, but we refrain from going  out for a family function with our folks even after we are told about that a week before (I understand its better to hang out at the roadside BHEL-wala/any random coffee house with your buds than to hear your uncle/aunt lecture you about what you should or should not do even if its at your fav restaurant...But still)
If  things are not good with our friends, we try our maximum to patch things up.we are afraid we will lose them and they wont talk to us anymore.On the other hand if somethings wrong at our home, we dont speak for days, suddenly our ego arises from nowhere.
This is bcoz we take them for GRANTED. We are confident that the situation wont stay like this forever. We have know our folks.They have given us so much of freedom and full filled almost every need of ours.
still we behave in this manner.
i will perhaps never understand why does this happen. Even if you think this should not happen again.but it does.
I really feel bad about this situation.
I know there will be some of you, who have experienced this and agree with it.