Family is in one word, annoying.
They’re constantly around you twenty-four seven, asking you to do things, interrupting what you're doing, and just overall nosey and intruding.
My family is no exception. I absolutely love my family and would do anything for them but they're not Angels. Currently, I’m on a cruise with my family in the Caribbean for ten days. Just my mom, my dad, my brother, my sister and I. Growing up, being a middle child made me feel like I was overlooked a lot because I wasn’t the youngest nor was I the oldest. I also thought my parents favored my siblings more than myself for a while.
Being alone with my family on this cruise, especially without wifi most of the time made me realize how far my family has come. Sure we’re dysfunctional, loud, probably annoying, and we will most likely be laughing at something either really weird, odd or stupid, but in all honestly we’re awesome. When my family gets together we do things for each other, and we talk, and we laugh, and we just enjoy and soak in each other's company. It’s not often that we all get the chance to hang out and relax together as a family on vacation.
My family is caring, selfless, amazing, understanding, loving and most importantly we get each other, meaning we understand each other. Or at least most of the time we do. We know when someone’s acting off and we know when not to push something and to just act like everything’s normal even if it’s really not.
No family is perfect, trust me, I would know because my family fights at least twice a day. But I think the dysfunction of my family is what makes us more cohesive than other families. We accept the fact that we’re dysfunctional and that there’s is nothing we can do about it. We embrace it and we just go with it. My family hands down is the most unique, hilarious and entertaining family I’ve ever known- and I’m telling you that if we had our own reality TV show, we’d be more popular than the Kardashians.
I love my family, and this vacation I’m on only makes me more grateful and appreciative of the people I have in my life that I call my family. So no matter how odd or dysfunctional or messed up your family may be, appreciate them. Because they are the people who led you to be who you are today. It took me way too long to appreciate mine, and now that I have finally learned to respect them and all that they have done for me, I honestly don’t know what I’d do without them.
