Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be, after our deaths - by each of the family members who believe they know us.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Family is this very deep, complex thing that for most people becomes everything. It informs your entire life.
In one way or another, everybody has this experience in their lives... the moment when you have to define your relationship to family and how your family's made you who you are, whether you've spent your life running from your family or deeply connected to your family.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
To say that a family is happy I think is to diminish it, taking out what is interesting. Growing up, I don't think my family was any happier or unhappier than anyone else's. My mother and father should have been divorced or never even married. On the other hand, I remember many moments of happiness.
Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.
You go through life wondering what is it all about but at the end of the day it's all about family.
I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.
Whatever you define family as, family is just a part of belonging to something that takes care of you and nurtures you... and when you have lost that, and you want to get that back, it's pretty easy to get emotional about it.
In hindsight, I see the great value of family and how it moulded my life and kept me together. So now family means everything to me.
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