Gifts of life: family
Happy to be sharing, in this wonderful community of which I am flattered to be a part. Today in our section on gifts of life, we continue to travel and deliberate on these exquisite treasures, in that walk of unlimited adventure, which gives us the reflection.
Always from a constructive and critical point of view, where all contemplations are possible, valid, and generate contributions. The purpose is loaded with the intention to meet in socialization and unveil new meanings that enrich our journey.
For this occasion, I invite you to travel in the sublime gift that is the family, let's digress about it, perhaps new perspectives will emerge in this meeting. And the fact is that this particular gift is immersed in the experience and the experiences we have throughout our existence.
The intention is to go to the colloquy friendly with every day, with the lived and felt, excluding the stiff concepts expressed throughout history, etymological, sociological, or legal.
Hence, we walk in shifting sands, because to talk about the family is to travel in a world of subjectivity, which involves great complexity, where the multifactorial, kaleidoscopic, even confusing and enigmatic, is the scenario. Let us assume the discursive challenge, let us go to the collision of thinking and unraveling, understanding events that help us to understand that life is there for us, that it is not inaccessible, and that the ultimate goal is to live transiting in happiness.
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I conceive the family as a mutable system of life, which nourishes, grows, evolves, and transforms itself perennially in its dynamism. It is composed of a conglomerate of people, united by ties of kinship, whose vital purpose is to be an inexhaustible source of affection and multidirectional support among all its members.
I consider the family as a system, because its members, related to each other, must function as a whole, to generate favorable environments, rich in rewarding and strengthening experiences, as well as positive learning.
Its members value each other, love each other, support each other, accept each other, and accompany each other in order to develop together. In this great mutable complexity, its members, like threads that weave a tapestry, are enriched by their relationships and interactions with each other, for collective satisfaction, with the environment, and with themselves for personal satisfaction.
It is a long road that the family must balance in order to generate the necessary stability, especially when insecurities, fears, and deficiencies appear, which generate vulnerability and fragility, and if they are not adequately managed, conflicts and strong tensions arise.
No family is exempt from ups and downs and oscillations. It is characteristic of its evolution and effectiveness, to resist the onslaught again and again, facing crisis scenarios. Many times we feel and we do not say it, we do not express it. We remain with our own brief or isolated intrinsic evaluations of our own introspections, leaving aside what interconnects us as human beings, and as a family, which is the language made substance in the speech.
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Despite all the meanings that can be given to the family, it is, in essence, a human entity, with dignity and social value, correlative must always keep in mind its malleability and elasticity, to transform, grow, and strengthen, and never dissolve or disintegrate.
I am thrilled and grateful to have the gift of family, which accompanies me and strengthens me. Our relationships are complex and diverse, we go through the ups and downs and the malleability of the day-to-day. We are real with virtues and defects, we are human, where there are no utopias, but our essence does not change, it prevails. It is in our interactions in times of crisis and difficulties, that we have strengthened our humanity, prevailing love and cooperation among us.
It is impossible to conceive of my life without my family. It is my cardinal center. Every day branches sprout from our tree, with new generations that adorn and accelerate the beating of our hearts. Thanks to her I forged values of mutual affection, respect, and trust. It has been my family through its structure and influence, my pilaster as a primordial system of social relations, which has provided enriching inputs, to transmute into being, to understand my unfinished and imperfect human condition.
To the members of my family, only together we have been able to navigate the sea of life: sometimes calm, sometimes agitated, and stormy. Individual and collective evolution, in this human continuum where love and mutual support prevail, in autonomy and contemporaneity.
Such are the gifts that life gives us, kind and caring to free our being, to be happy, to make our own and others happy.
What do you think of this gift of life?
