By: Mary Danielle E. Bocalan
An unknown
author once said, “Family is where life begins and where love never ends”, with
that, I 101% agree. Upon our first day here on Earth, the first blink of our
little eyes, first close-open of our little palms; the first to touch, to smile
and to cry of happiness is our family, our parents. Family is the foundation of
every society; it is where we learn all the basic lessons that life has to
offer. Family is the foundation of our successes and failures in life, in such
a way that it contributes a huge factor to our very humanity. Everyone has
families, may it be biological or not, it is one thing that every person in the
world is gifted with. Some would say, family is the greatest dream that God has
provided, while others say, family is the scariest nightmare that God has given
them. However, despite the differences in every person's perspective towards
family, one thing is for sure, family is
the greatest perk that life has to offer.
I am a fruit of
a complete and happy family. I am an offspring of a lovely couple who chose to
find the essence of family in every possible way than to concentrate with
unending trials that may leave us with no choice. Although I am living with the
undying affection of my parents and incomparable love of my siblings, our
family, like any other family is not perfect. During my childhood years, almost
everything that I did was paralleled with what my parents wanted me to do, I am
not saying that throughout those years, I never enjoyed every chance allotted
for me to develop and experience what most children are into but at some point,
I wish I did, every bit of it. When
my teenage years started to sprout, my personal decisions began to develop, I
was then quite amazed and overwhelmed of the perquisites of being a teenager,
but my parents’ embrace is too tight, I can’t even breathe. In my mind, I
wanted to experience everything, every single trend that our society has to
offer, but how can I, if I feel like a prisoner of my own house? Probably one
of the most selfish lines that I’ve said to myself is, “I wish I had another
family”, which still strikes me whenever I remember such egotistic way of
thinking. However, despite all those childish sentiments, unlike most of
“deprived” teenagers, I never rebelled, I never went beyond my limitations, surely I may have said and done things which hurt them,
but I never did things that will certainly make me regret.
My family isn’t
perfect but it is full of perfectly balanced memories; love and hate, serious
and laughter, peace and war, these are the ingredients that make it dreamingly
blissful. In spite the unending challenges, trials and encounters, one thing
that my parents vested in me is that, “People
come and go, but not us, your family”. It is truly a blessing to have
people who will never leave you even in the darkest of hour the day. With that,
I say, no one in this world is born out of either a tree or a shell; even the
saddest and intolerable people are entitled to a family, the difference just
lies on how the family functions as a true family.
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