Family There is a quote that says “you don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them” (Tutu). I disagree, I do believe they are a gift from God, but you can choose your family. A lot of times you decide that your relatives will be family. Friendship, in the other hand, is the people that you choose to spend time with, therefore they are family. Every family is different and have all kind of ways to show affection but there are a few values that we need to achieve a happy family. Relatives are the people you share DNA with, which is not enough to make them family. Even though we humans tend to love the ones with the same blood, I know it’s not always the case, as an example, I love both my brothers to death and …show more content…
Friends are the people that support but also give their opinion, always keeping in mind what is best for you. Once I read that friends are the family you choose, and I have mixed feelings about that. If my friends are the family I decide to have then I also have a family that I did not choose, right? As said before, I disagree with that, because to me there is just one family that is formed by both relatives and friends. Not all friends are family though, just the ones you could trust your life and that “when everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching- They are your family” …show more content…
First of all, they need to love each other (all kinds of love), how can I be part of a family but don’t have any kind of affection for them? As I said before, I have two brothers and I love them, but they are so annoying too, they play pranks on me and had made me cry so many times but still, I would not change them for anything, imagine if I didn’t love them, now that wouldn’t work at all. Second of all is forgiveness. We all make mistakes, that’s how we learn and we are only humans, by no means perfect. I could not stay mad at my family, I’d try, I really had but it doesn’t happen, I’m mad for a few minutes and then they make me laugh. Forgiveness is a thing that goes both ways, you got to earn it and you got to be willing to give it. “The weak can never forgive, forgiveness is the attribute of the strong” (Gandhi). The last one is that you have to be protective of your family, you have to care about them and do anything in your power and more to not let anyone hurt them, and they are precious and deserve to be protected with all we got. I am a calm and quite person (an introverted in all the meaning of the word), I’m against any kind of violence and I believe that no one have the right to hurt somebody, however if someone harm one single member of my dear family I’ll do everything that I can to make them pay (legally speaking, of