Family Your family is the first relationship you have. It is there to teach you how to love. One of the most important things to know is to not only love yourself but to also love others. We think we are forced to love our family because they are related to us by blood. But I don’t believe that. I learned the hard way that I love my mom, my home, and a place I felt secure. Living on your own is a big step in growing up. We are forced to adapt to living a completely different lifestyle with completely different people.
I wish I knew to love my family a little more. We were never a
touchy or emotional family. It was an unstated understanding that we cared for each other. If I could go back I’d tell my mom and sister everyday how much it meant to me that they cared for me. In the adult world love doesn’t come as easily. Nothing is easy in the adult world. Having a core family behind you makes it a lot easier. At times if I don’t have enough money in the month to afford rent and groceries my mom will buy me food. It means more to me then she could ever imagine. She does it so effortlessly because she’s always cared for me.
Your parents shape your life whether you like them or not. They
teach you the lifestyle they know and it’s weird but you’ll find out that when you live on your own you will live the same way your mother did. It’s a very strange cycle. So listen to your mother and father. Let them take every picture they can of you growing up because that stage of your life will pass and the closest thing to memories is photographs. They have altered their lives to make your life that much better so don’t blow it.
Boys Eww. Sick. Gross. Yuck. Boys. For the record at my age I still think boys are totally gross and yet for some reason we need them for survival.