Don’t keep it in the Family

Out of all the people in the world to fight with why do people choose to argue with their family members?

My first year of college, I met a lot of strangers with many different family values. To be honest, there were some people I just couldn’t understand or I couldn’t even be around because they said to me that they hated their parents or they didn’t talk to their siblings.

I don’t get it. The most important thing to me is family.

I can understand that some people have had hard upbringings and there are certain circumstances that make people shy away from their families.

However, there is one important married couple in my life that have inspired ‘what a family is’ to me more than anyone else. They both grew up with separated parents, but that didn’t keep them from having a trusting and loving family. It only made them stronger because they never wanted to put their children through what they had been through.

The husband hasn’t spoken to his mother in over six years. They had a dispute and his mother hasn’t even taken a minute of her time to express how she has been feeling about the argument. Whether or not she’s the one to apologize, he has never received a visit or a call.

Since the argument, there has been four babies born and his mother is now a great grandmother. She doesn’t even know what the children look like.

It hurts my heart to think that she may pass away sometime in the near future without experiencing one day with these precious little ones and I wish they could resolve their issues and go on sharing a life together before she’s gone.

I believe that the family you come from is as important as the family you’re going to have. So, why should people want to put family members through so much pain?

"If you don't know your family's history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree." - Michael Chrichton

~The Journals of D…

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