Importance of Family

Family is the glue that holds us all together. When you think of a family. What do you think of? A mom, a dad, and a few kids? Yes. They would be considered as the "traditional" family, but family doesn't always have to include a mother and a father. Family is not always blood. My definition of family is the people in your life that stick by you and love you for who you are.

 

In an essay that I read, Stone Soup (Barbara Kingsolver), there was a quote that really caught my eye. "But it's harder somehow to shrug off the Family of Dolls Family Value crew when they judge (from their safe distance) that divorced people, blended families, gay families, and single families are failures." in no way shape or form are these families failures. Back when Kingsolver wrote her essay describing how different family situations shouldn't be looked on as a broken home; people weren't keen on the idea of anything other than the traditional family. Now a days people have gotten used to all different family types because in the end, their all looking for their children's best interest. Who can put a label on love? No matter if the family is gay, divorced, single, or biracial their all still a family.

 

Also, family doesn't always have to be blood. I have close friends that I would sometimes refer to as my sisters because we look after each other and keep each other from getting into trouble. Family shouldn't be categorized into the people you're related to. For example, you hear your mom and/or dad call one of their best childhood friends your Aunt or Uncle. No, they aren't really your blood but they are a part of you're family never the less.

 

People get into their minds that if a family isn't traditional then it's wrong. We all fall into an illusion that families should all be the same. But news flash, not all people are the same, so what makes you think all families are the same. Like Kingsolver said in her essay, "And I understood the Prince Charming Theory of Marriage, a quest for Mr. Right." Lot's of girls are held bent on finding Mr. Right. Especially, teen girls with their raging hormones. We all want to find Prince Charming. Eventually, God willing, we will find this "Prince Charming" but not always in the form of what we imagined as little girls.

 

     

 

 

No matter what, your family is yours and nobody can take that from you. It's the feeling you  have for each other that keep you guys together. "Ohana means family and family means nobody gets left behind." - Lilo and Stitch