Family

Family is a funny and a sad thing. We should consider family to be everything but they are not. Family is the first to stab you in the back. Family are the first to put your business on front street. They will curse you out and talk about you behind your back. I have come in contact with many people who have problems with their family. Members of the family who will put their own mother in a nursing home and steal all the mother's money. Members who will fight over an inheritance when they never saw or cared for the person leaving the money. Family who will stay in your home and not pay a lick of money on ie: food, bills,or cleaning supplies. Family that will turn their back on abusive behavior. True indeed we can not change the family we have been born into or the members of, but we must learn to allow them to be who and what they are and take it for face value. Many of us would enjoy going through a catalog of families and say "I think I want to belong to this family." If it could only be that easy. Sister's, cousins, and aunties who are more of a mother to a person than their own mother is prevalent in many a family structure. The deal is family is family be it as it may, we must learn to forgive, try to forget some of the hurt they cause and try to move forward. The good part is you are control of your destiny and their bad behavior does not have to be yours. We have freedom of choice and free will. You can change the generational flaws of your predecesors. It starts with you, you are not your family.