What is Family?
Family is not always that which you are born into
Family can be the chosen people whom you love. These are the people for whom you would move mountains, who you know have your back, and who you confide in because they get you.
There is tremendous positivity in recognizing, acknowledging, and being a part of that family.
I am not disregarding the families we are born into. For the most part, they tend to be around from the beginning through the formative years and into the present. Parents, siblings, aunts and uncles, cousins and the rest can mean a lot to you.
However, in many cases, we grow apart from the family we are born into. Some people simply take paths and choose lifestyle options that the rest of their given family might not understand. Places to live, hobbies, friends we keep can be wildly different from our birth families.
Some people form communities among these people, and when those communities become particularly close, they turn into families. Non-traditional, to be sure, but family none-the-less. These people matter to us, and we want to be there for them and help them to grow, and they tend to do the same for us.
Acknowledging and celebrating your chosen family doesn’t lessen love for your birth family. In especial because love is the ultimate expression of abundance…
