Family

                They say that “Friends may come and go, but family stays forever.” In a sense this is true, because no matter where you go or who you meet you are always a part of where you came from, who your parents are, and who taught you the essentials of what you know today. Although you are largely shaped from your ancestors and biological family, that doesn’t necessarily mean they will always be around. Who are “they” to have the right to say ‘You Can’t Choose Your Family’ or that they will always be there? Of course family is typically defined as who you grew up with and who raised you and your siblings but after you grow up and become who you are, your family is who you want your family to be.

                With this post I am nowhere near saying that if your family annoys you or they haven’t always been good to you that you should ditch them. Your family, no matter how close you are to them, is your family and has to at least be acknowledged, and hopefully respected. Besides that though, I like to define family as whoever you are meant to be with. Of course everyone has their friends, but the ones that are there for you all the time, the ones that may annoy you like no one else can, the ones that are almost always either around too much or around not enough, are the ones that I call family. These are the people that you would call when you are in trouble, or you would get up at one o’clock in the morning to help, no matter what the circumstances.

                Okay, that was really wordy and maybe even confusing, but what I am trying to say is basically that I believe they were right when they said that home is where the heart is. The heart is wherever you are the happiest. You are happiest wherever your family is, either the family you grew up with or the family that you were drawn to. Everyone should have at least one person in their life that they deserve, someone that they can count on, and someone that is seemingly impossible to replace. (377)