What is Family to You?

Today Kala and I couldn't agree on a topic for the audio >_> so I (Shanice) have decided to write one instead. Do people even know the true definition of family anymore? Because many of us abuse the words 'hate' and 'love' we are confused about a certain circle of people that many of us hold near and dear to our hearts. Now someone does not have to be a blood relative in order to be part of your family. The word, family, has many definitions. What is your definition of a family? My definition is basically two or more people care intimately (without sex) about each other and would sacrifice almost anything for that person. There are a few people out there, who are not blood relatives, that I consider family.

Anyways, I have a family that at times can seem like total strangers you just want to smack. I mean, who doesn't? The one thing I can say, though, is that my family do NOT play. They have my back when I'm stuck in situations and when it comes to fighting, we come like wolves. As for my friends that I consider family...they SUCK!! LMAO! I love them to death. This goes for all my family, both blood and not, I will do ALMOST anything for you. Don't expect me to go down with you when you did something you should not have been doing in the first place. Some non-blood people I consider family are; Eric, Stephanie, Melanie, Chelsea, Shaquana, Arielle, Jared, and Sherwyn. (I hope ya'll ok with this ^.^)

Back to my point though, some people think family is only within the blood. Sometimes, those same blood people can be the biggest of enemies, or strangers, to you. There are many people I know that their own family treats them like shit and have friends that care more about them than that family of theirs. Why is this? Maybe because a lot of people take family for granted. "Oh s/he will let me slide with this." Then it turns into a frequent thing. I guess what I'm trying to say is that many people thing that family is supposed to do everything for them or give them something every time they ask for it. No relationship works like that at all, and never will if people keep pushing limits.

So this concludes my thoughts for the day. If you have anything to add, feel free to comment or email me, because there may have been things I forgot to add, so on and so forth. Since I have three AP exams in only 2 weeks (can someone say mega stress!?) I have mega studying to do. So as I'm off to the world of college level books, check out the other KSZD blogs and some from my girlies Chels and Quana.*

~~Keep Love Real~~

*Quana:
http://beautifullyoutspoken.wordpress.com/

*Chels:
http://cladylegacy.blogspot.com/