Tuesday, October 9, 2012
When you look around you, and you see a diverse
selection of people you seem to think or misjudge and say” I could never have
something in common with that person”. And even though we may all be different and
appear different there is one thing that all people have in common and that’s family.
Family is what starts the foundation and generation of people. If we didn’t
have ancestors and grandparents none of us would be here. My family in
particular is very multicultural and out of the ordinary. My grandparents on my
mother’s side couldn’t get married because of their races were different. My
grandmother is Mexican and my grandfather is African American, Creole decent. They
tried going to Las Vegas to get married but they refused to marry my
grandparents. Some years later they had to wait to get a marriage license and
had my mother a few years after. On my father’s side his parents married early
and had a lot of kids. My father is from a small island in the South Pacific called
Tonga, and he’s 1 of 15 kids. The one thing I love about my whole family is
that I could sit here and literally type my full family history and make a
family tree. I’m proud that I know so much and I know where I came from. I love
my family unconditionally; I couldn’t picture life without them. My family is
honestly the one thing that holds me together. When I feel like giving up I can
always lean on someone’s shoulder and talk to them about anything. There isn’t one
person in my family I can’t say I’m not close to. My family and I are so close
we’re like the Kardashians. We’re around each other frequently and always do a
lot of family activities such as camping and hiking. And even though we all
drive each other crazy and fight, we would take a bullet for one another any
day. My mother was born and raised in Oxnard so I’m around her family a lot,
but as for my father his family lives in different states so I only see them
once every few years. But I still maintain a relationship with my Tongan family
everywhere. I may complain how much my family annoys me and how much they’re in
my business I am very thankful I have a large family on both sides and I know
no matter what they will always have my back.
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