What is family? This is a question that I have been asking myself since I was young. Mostly because my family has always seemed like hyenas, giraffes, and muskrats thrown into a pen together and told to get along. Yet somehow, I still believe that family is important. I am just beginning to wonder if the dictionary definition of family hasn’t confused the issue.
I’ve long believed in reincarnation and that the people who live on this earth have usually lived several lives before this one. In this same vein, I am beginning to believe that families were formed several lifetimes ago as well. Long ago, we lived with our true families. As we have died and been reborn, we have lost those people along the way. So we begin a quest at the start of each new life. We search for this first family. The people who complete our souls and make the world hurt less. We spend our lives desperately hoping to find our soul mates, another idea that has been confused. Why must a soul mate be only the man or woman that you will mate with? I believe that soul mates are members of your first family that you have found in this life. They are men and women. And they do not need to be genetically related to you to be a part of your family.
I don’t know where this new train of thought will lead me but I feel like I may have a new quest. I want to know how Earth’s citizens perceive family.
More to come...
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