Family or Friends

Who do you consider to be your family and who are your friends? Is it defined by characteristics, personality, or commonality? Or maybe is it superficial, the time they spend with you, the things they do with or for you, even the importance that you feel in by being in their life? In any manner that you define the people in your life, is imperative that they know as well. Love is able to be describe in more than six different ways in various languages, point being we can have a love for people that is not the same between one person to another. Understanding the value we have in someones life can ultimately determine their value in our own. Family has been able to include people beyond our own genetics from the beginning of humans. Likewise we have also been able to consider our family as friends, but what definition should be to describe these people in our lives. Value, time, understanding, traits, these are all right and so many more. I honestly can say that I have many families and not all of them know each other or even of each other, nonetheless I consider the relationship I have with each one of them to be of equal importance and therefore worthy of my devotion and appreciation. Our ability to appreciate each other and the gifts that they each one of us has is the difference between a person and a family or friend. My relationships have all cost me, every single one, but with out a payment there is nothing gained. For every relationship and the cost thereof I have gained a profit in knowledge, experience, memories, adventure, pleasure, joy, understanding, and appreciation for all that I have been blessed to have so many. Truth be told anyone who could see what I have been through could feel nothing but hatred to the world, and the people in it, but wisdom and grace has been kind to me. I feel not sorrow, because the sorrow of a thousand tears could not take back what has already been done, not hatred, because the power of hatred is what has caused the calamity of the universe, not pity, for pity is what leads us to sorrow and hatred, not remorse, because if there has been even a single lesson that comes from a wrong then consider it to be a blessing. No, what I feel is love, for that is what made us and what shall united us. I chose to love people in any capacity I am able. For God so loved the world, that He Gave HIS Only Son, how can I ignore the fact that if the God I love and trust and have been given grace and life from was able to love the WORLD enough to give His Only Son, then so can I love the World enough in the same capacity. We have hearts that beat to live and souls that guide us in love, but what if we let our souls guide our hearts to live off of love. I can attest to the fact that you may find yourself faulty in this as I have many times, but the grace of those around me has allowed me to continually learn and grow, that is how a relationship should define itself. To Learn and grow without bounds.