Family

            When I think about family, the picture that comes to my mind is of my family. My family contains a mother, a father and three sisters. Though they don’t fall in the ideal “perfect happy family” living in a perfect life, it makes them unique. With their imperfections as well as mine and with our different personalities, it makes our lives happy and fills it with many great memories and adventures even during rough times.

            Whenever I was stressed out about something or if my day was going bad, my family was always there helping me out even though there were times where I didn’t want their help at all. They would try to convince me to take a break or forget what had happened that day and later on take me to places such as the beach or in the park for a walk or play soccer. Knowing myself, I would probably not want to join them for a while, but slowly but surely I would tag along and at the very end of the day, I would have fun and would have completely forgotten what I was worried about in that day. We would also have family conversations during dinner where we each expressed our feelings, our worries and what we’ve been through that day which has helped me also.

            Looking back, I have become the person that I am right now because of them. For me, I believe that being in a family is important because it is the foundation or the key on becoming whatever person you want to be. It’s also where we get our values or our beliefs that shapes our personality so we have to be careful sometimes with our actions or what we say to each other in our families. Having been born with wonderful parents and being raised in a great family, I have become a very good person with great values that people have given their trust to me as well as my family which is a great honor. Without the help and guidance of my family, I don’t know where I would have ended up and what kind of person I would have become.

            To summarize it, my family is like a sanctuary and a team that is filled with love and service. When trials and hardship strikes in the world, the only place of comfort that I could rely on and go to is my family. When we work together as a team, nothing could beat us down because we help each other and we have each other’s back. I’m blessed for being a part of it and because we have a short time of living on earth, I want to cherish each moment that I have with my family.