One of our most fundamental elements of a healthy community is family. It provides stability while growing up, and throughout our lives. But in the past 50 years the family unit has fallen apart. Parents are too busy working at 10 hour a day jobs, trying to just make it, or have more materialistically in life. The old cliché “Keeping up with the Jones’”, is more pertinent then you may think. One of the biggest blinding factors of today is not realizing how important family really is. Why in our society are we made to feel less of a person if we don’t have a big house, two new vehicles, and vacation every year? Are all of those material items worth more to us then our families or community? It seems so, and it’s very sad to see it happening.
Our children are being raised by after school programs, baby sitters, or worse the technology of today. Families spend less time together today than ever in our past history. Only getting together for the big Holidays once yearly, then we are in such a rush we don’t really visit. What happened to dinner at the Grandparents home on Sundays? When everyone would bring a dish, come together, spending a whole day visiting and playing games. We shared joys and hardships, heard the sound of laughter from the children. Those days seem so long ago.
Our memories are made around our family and events that take place, not some TV show. When did you last say “You remember that time we were watching…..”, NO because that is not what makes lasting memories. We put to many other obligations first in our lives instead of family or community. We let grudges against family members for things that don’t matter in the long run, take precedent over what means the most. I’ve always told my family "No matter what your differences may be …if one is hurt in the family, set your differences aside and let's come together to help each other." That is how a community works, like a family, united as one! Forgive, love and move forward, we will all be much happier, closer, and feel more love in our lives.
We must work as a team, together as one family, and bring back what is important. If we would only work better together not only as a family but as communities, we would enrich our lives. As one we can accomplish anything we desire! Our world is crying for unity. We are begging you to start looking at the bigger picture.
Yes the family unit is gone, always rushing to do this and that. I remember the olden days of family playing horseshoes or bad mitten baseball and all different kind of things as the whole family got together, on a Sunday every week. We need to unite once again and be a family together. God bless you for this blog.
ReplyDeleteTrue. Family is the base of our society.
ReplyDeleteWhat if it has been the evil plan of the Illuminati to ensure the family unit is dissolved and no Love and Caring is experienced in their pursuit of enslaving us as their prisoners? Just saying I Love You…is that so difficult? I hope not.
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