12/31/2024
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Family
When I was young; the word family meant something! Family was special. You protected your family members, you never gave up on them, even if you didn’t agree, when you knew you couldn’t talk them out of it; you had their backs and stood with them in disagreements with others. You took care to not blemish or smear the family name. And you always knew you could count on each other. Your family, like your hometown, is your roots: good or bad, it made you who you are today.
Nowadays it seams so easy for people to turn their backs and walk away from members of the family. To “dis-own” “un-claim” (forsake the hands that fed them) All the while: trying to raise young with love and compassion. They try to instill family into their own children all while pretending they have none of their own!
Sadly enough, it won’t work that way. You teach by example so instead of teaching them that there will always be people in our lives that we love enough to “go to bat for”, or worth “burying the hatchet” and “working through” problems with; you’re merely teaching them how to slam the door and walk away from everyone who doesn’t agree with their mindset. Inevitably they will someday do that to you!
I hope and prey that the youngsters: because they are raised with bits and pieces of a broken family, will realize just how important “family” is, and return mankind to the old ways of “family”.