So before I being this post you may have noticed that have went a little quiet over the last few days, and I just want to say….
I am sorry.
Over the last couple of days I have spent lot of time with friends, and family, and I have just not known what to write in on this page. Spending this quality time has really helped me realise, some important things and today I am back, and ready to write about them.
Family, is a complex, interesting and amazing thing, which holds different means to many different people. Of course there is the dictionary definition of family:
Family:
A group of people related by blood or marriage.
‘friends and family can provide support’
‘I could not turn him away, for he was family’
However in this blog I am going to focus on the not the family who I was born into (although I love them very much and would not have them any other way ❤ ), but rather the family which you choose to create around yourself.
Another way I like to describe family is:
People say we cannot choose our family, but we can always choose our friends, and I agree we can’t choose the family which we are born into, and we do have the power to choose the people who we choose to spend our time away from our blood family with. However I have found that often the people who we choose to spend our time with, outside of our blood related family, often become a second family to us.
We love these people as much as we do our family. We care about what happens to them, we will defend them as we would our own relatives, and we know that no matter how far away they are, we can go weeks, months or even years other, and they will always be there.
As I have said on this blog before the last few months have not always been easy, and at times I often did not know where to turn or where to go. Even though I have had a very hard few months, and I am beginning to move on, one huge thing I am thankful for, is I have started to realise that I have true friends who are like family to me, and are always willing to support me, and listen to understand my emotions.
Some of these friends I have known for years, and live live 5 to 10 minuets away. Some I had only known for a short time, but I feel like I have known forever. Others live one train journey, some live so far away that only a plane would get me there. These people have truly been there for me, and I couldn’t be so grateful to have the in my life. And yes, of course there are days where I feel alone, but then I remember the truly huge, wonderful and international family which I have, and that there is always someone there, it just may take a while to remember.
Love
E xx
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