A Look into My Family's Past and Present

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Hello, dear Hive community, welcome to my blog. Today, I will talk about the topic of A Kind Of Family.

The initial question posed to us is whether I come from a big family. It's a question that has an easy answer: yes and no.

Yes, because on my mother's side, the family is quite large. She has five sisters, and I have many cousins on that side. Each of them has had children, and I have third-generation cousins who are distant cousins, and it's a family that has currently spread all over the world, to different parts of the planet.

So, we are no longer gathered in the same place of origin, which is here, our home in Venezuela. So, from that perspective, yes, the family is big.

On my father's side, the family is smaller, but it is harder for us to see each other because it's a family that got lost in the fields and plains of Venezuela, and we haven't heard from them since.

So, it can be said that from that side, it's a small family despite my grandmother having only three children, two girls and a boy, who is my dad.

My memories of family or the family dynamics we had are from the Sundays when we would go to my grandmother's house when I was still a teenager, and we would gather there to enjoy the lunch she made.

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We had that family gathering, and within that dynamic, the perks we enjoyed were being able to talk at the table, the jokes my grandfather made, the interactions he had with my grandmother, and commenting on how delicious the meals were.

I remember my grandmother made very delicious salads, and I think socializing and sharing things at the table while having lunch is one of the social skills learned from having a large family or sharing in a large group.

My immediate family has been composed of mom, dad, and me.

I haven't had brothers or sisters, and I don't know what it's like to interact in a large family because I've always missed that part of having a sibling to compete or argue with.

That has not been good for me because I haven't been able to develop my social skills as I should have. It has taken more time to develop those skills, and it has had to be on my own because neither of my parents were dedicated to that part.

I suppose they felt frustrated by not having more children, and the frustration came because my mom had a problem that prevented her from having more children due to a medical condition called infantile uterus.

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The proposal made to us is that if I had money or if money were not an issue, I would have a large family. I would obviously do it because the economic factor is what prevents people from progressing and advancing in life, especially if you are born in a country with many economic difficulties, likely in Latin America or Africa, where access to services and the best things and food depends practically on your financial capacity.

I am sure that people would be much more open to having large families if they knew they could afford education, food, clothing, trips, and all the expenses involved in paying for books and education for all their relatives.

If this weren't a problem, we would probably have much larger and happier families.

I believe governments should work more on making this easier for people, not to raise lazy and idle citizens who don't want to work, but quite the opposite.

People who feel happier and, being freed from the obligation to work just to earn money and pay for their education, would use that time to create and invent things, improve the current world, and be more productive in arts, science, music, and various fields, which I am sure would contribute to all of us having a better world.

And with this reflection I end my intervention on today's topic for the hive learners community.