Definition Essay On Family

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Family. There are a lot of thoughts and feelings associated with this word. Every person has a different interpretation of this word as well. For some, it brings up past experiences filled with joy and happiness, and for others, thoughts of misery and heartache come into the picture. In these feelings and in these thoughts, there are people that love me no matter the circumstance. These people are people I have bonded with and even when we do each other wrong or stab each other in the back, we still have love for each other. Family is supposed to be inseparable.
For starters, let me introduce my family starting with my father. His name is Scott and he is basically the definition of a hard worker. He’d walk coast to coast just to keep …show more content…

All the cool new things we bought were pawned or even sold to help pay for common necessities that most people take for granted. My mother would try to borrow money from friends or extended family and was trying to find a place for us to stay but she never found help from anyone. It really shaped my personality and changed how I felt about people in general when nobody wanted to help or even viewed my family as “a lost cause.” We weren’t the happiest or the best family, but we were at least functional, but now we were seen by literally everyone as the “family who never made it”, or the “family who let everything slip away.” We were on our …show more content…

I remember when my Mother was trying to decide to either keep on the water or keep on the electricity because we didn’t have enough money for both. Later that day the water was shut off, a little while later the gas, and soon after that we woke up to an eviction notice hanging on our door. We were at rock bottom. Around this time it was almost as if God threw my family a lifejacket. We received a call from the hospital and they pretty much asked if there was anyone interested in going up to Columbus to stay for a little while to help my father in his recovery process. This call was exhilarating and changed my entire mindset with the situation. The call gave us a place to reside and gave us news that my dad was