Importance of Family
I actually had to sit down for awhile and actually figure out what I wanted to say for this blog, I had a lot of it in my head already but I wasn’t sure if I was going to be fully open about it, We’ll see how this blog rolls out and I hope you can feel that this is raw emotion from a young teenager going through lifes day to day issues.
You could say that a lot of my family is really close, My cousin and mother are very close, practically a son to her and practically a mum to him. Always helped each other out and he actually always come to our house for meals etc. He then changed job shifts, everything changed, we’d never see him, He was like a bigger brother to me and when I didn’t see him anymore, it cut me deep. Something was going on and we knew something was going to go down. I felt i knew but couldn’t approach anybody and it finally all ended when he was fired from his job, he was living with my other cousin in the other side of town, He was missing work and such. The phones at my house were red hot off the hook for those few nights, It all ended when he fell asleep at the wheel of his car and hit another car - Luckily only injuring himself. He finally got incontact with everyone, fixing things and tonight he was actually over. It was just like old times, He was with us all, being the great person he was, still making jokes, still eating with us. When i saw him around the food. I knew this would have been a great blog topic because it’s how I felt.
I also thought about past memories with family. Sadly many of them are very depressing, I’d say close to 95% of all the memories I have of my father when i was younger were when he was drunk. I can remember being about 6 and at a hotel with my Mum and Dad, He was drunk and making a scene. I can still remember everytime he’d leave for work and he’d kiss me on the head and you could smell the beer on his breath. I can accept him for who he is and that he’s got a problem but its still sad to have these memories.
I just hope if i’m ever a father my kids never have to experience what I did. I think this blog actually has a message behind it, you need to focus on keeping your family close, they’re valuable and mean a lot to everyone, look back. I’m sure all of us have atleast one great memory with a family member.