HOW FAMILY SHAPES WHO WE BECOME
Hello everyone, welcome to my blog. Trust you are doing great. This week’s topic is interesting for me because it is about family.
Family, as we all know, is our bloodline, our life, and our roots. It shapes who we become in our life journey and daily pursuits.
I was born into a family of six champions in life, and it has been one of learning, becoming, and daily improvement. I learnt a lot from my aunts and uncles who were staying with us. Most importantly, my family influenced my lifestyle, character, and values. I acquired the virtues of patience, gratitude, decision-making, farming, and business acumen from my family.
However, there are moments when we have it rough, such as siblings-to-siblings gbas gbos and parents-to-children gbas gbos. But in all, it was my first school of thought where I learnt the dividing lines of the good versus the bad.
In my family, we practice many rituals, such as praying together in the morning and at night after dinner. When it comes to eating, when I was a teenager, we ate together as a family, but at some point, everyone started eating separately.
There is also the ritual of sharing our moments in the living room after eating. We lurk around and discuss our daily activities, the good, bad, and ugly moments of the day, until we are tired. During this discussion, we give thanks, and most times, the various discussions will form thanksgiving or prayer points.
Once it is 9 pm, my brother will ring the altar bell for prayer time. Most times, we continue the discussion after the prayer session and retire to bed tired.
Furthermore, I learnt integrity and peaceful co-existence from my family, noting that a good name is better than money, as my late mum will always say. But, when I’m tempted to deviate from the track, that still small voice reminds me of this advice, and instantly, I will refrain from furthering with the act.
There was a time something got lost in the neighbourhood, and other children were called for questioning, except us. When my mum asked why, she was told that we are known in the neighborhood as children who do not mingle with other children. We stay around our home. That value impacted me greatly, such that I don’t loiter around my neighbourhood engaging other women in empty conversation.
In conclusion, I will say that my family showed me the path to tread and taught me how to tread in different times of life, and molded my personality into the phenomenal woman I have become today
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