The minute I walk through my front door the feeling of home surrounds me. I can smell the sweet chocolate cookies my mom has set on the table for when I arrived and I can hear my two year old brother playing with his blocks, laughing at my mom as she dances around old classic music playing in the background. I set my backpack down, hug my brother, and let the familiar surroundings come to me. To me the definition have family are people who are always there for you, through thick and through thin, but for some people family can be defined in a whole different perspective.
My family is always there for me. No matter what they are helping me out. The second I need them they’re there. The things I love the most about my family would be that they care for me. They’re kind, loving, and understanding towards me. First of all, I have a pretty big family, it started with me and then I got twin sisters 2 years after I was born. Then, two years after them we got my brother nick, he was a handful. Then, last but not least, out came Nate, who is now two years old. Even though we have a lot to handle with 7 people in my family, there so much love to go around, just like with “The Outsiders.”
There may be love with in my blood related family, but that’s not the same for “The Outsiders.” Some of the members of their gang have no blood-related family at all. For Johnny he has a mother and a father, but they don’t even notice he existence. He could be gone for a year and they wouldn’t have thought about him once. The saddest part I read about Johnny was when he said “Sometimes I like when my old man beats me, it reminds him that I’m there.” They have no one to care for them except the greasers. If that was the only people you had, would you call them your family?
Family is important to me. Even when I have nothing to do, someone in my family is always there, I can’t count on them no matter what. I remember when I was younger I’d get so home sick being away from them. I hated being away from my family when I was younger. I can kind of understand the greasers’ point of view, though. My family does get into fights sometimes which makes me want to be with my friends more, but no matter how long or how bad the fight is, I’ll always love my family.
Throughout everyone's life there are struggles and mistakes and with mistakes come consequences. You know your family won't always be 100% happy with every move you make, but you also know they will forgive you, because my definition of family, are people who are there for you, and always will be.
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