family is important to me. i'm a family man, i'm a father first. a son, next. a cousin, grandson, godfather & nephew. i'd love to add "husband" to that list, but yanno. . .
being a father has opened my eyes to so much more, now that i have someone i'm responsible for nurturing, raising, protecting & teaching to be a good person. to be a good man. to love himself. to love others. it's the one job that never ends. the one job i'd never walk away from. and the best and most important job i will ever have. i'm thankful for being a father.
i'm fortunate to have both my parents alive, active, and in my life. i still go and make them breakfast for mother's day/father's day. me & my son still sleep over their house on christmas so we can wake up together. we still go on family trips. we have family dinner night (until they started cheating..lol). we hang out just to hang out. i enjoy being around my parents.
i also have a 86 y/o grandmother who calls me her favorite grandchild. who instantly smiles when i call. she's been through hell and back with health problems the last few years...but she's still here. i can still call and say i love you. i can still visit, hug & kiss her (even though i should do all of it more).
me and my cousin have been best friends all our lives (he's one month younger than me). we went to college together, pledged together, and he's the closest thing i have to a brother. his sisters (my cousins) are like my sisters. my godkids (my second cousins) might as well be my kids, because i love them to death. i have tons of other cousins who all refer to me as their "favorite cousin". because i love my family. i invite them to everything. i attend anything they have going on. family is more than genetics. it's a lifeline to who you are & where you come from. it's a connection that even if you don't want it. even if it embarrasses the hell out of you. it's still there.
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I love knowing people who are just as family oriented as myself. It makes life so much better knowing and loving your family.
@mo: it sure does. i have a hard time understanding how people aren't into family. unless you have a traumatic life story. like your family life is like "Precious" or some shit.
FAMILY ROCKS for the most part. I have huge family on my dad's side yet we are not all that close. We got closer after my daddy died and ironically enough after my granny died we went back to be apart. I have several cousins on that side that I wish I was closer to but I can only do so much. On my moms side which I am closer to we have a small family and I am not close to eisther of my cousins. I use to be but... My mother and grandmother along with my sister is what makes my family. We are very close and we try to spend lots of time together. They make life grand. I love hearing stories of folks and their close family life. I want that and hopefully my husband will have a large or close family that I can marry into.
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