Days 8

I get the feeling that repeating a topic would be cheating. So no more topic about cats or mlm or zombies. Those things may be fun to write but I guess if I allow myself to continue it might only focus on those things. So then, the topic I can think about is the video I was assigned to watch this day. It was about family meetings.

I must admit that if I have a family of my own I would want to adapt this weekly meetings. Maybe after church we go to a nice place, have fun, and relax, and afterwards discuss our plans for the week. If I cant afford it then I would have to adapt and just make it once a month. But still I want to do it.

Wishful thinking aside, I really do want to have a family of my own but as of the moment I could not find any glint of hope that it would ever happen. They say that thoughts attract things so maybe this is just all in me. Still, there is something that I can implement now, even without kids. That is, telling our story. 

My mother loves doing that. I didn’t know much about my grandfather because he was already old when I was still a baby and died when I was eight, but because of the stories of my mom I know so much about him. It’s as if I knew him all my life and that I trust him as a friend. That’s how I feel. I hope that I would be able to tell the stories about our family as well, and when its my turn I will make sure to highlight all the things that I am proud of in my family.

A wild thought would be to make childrens books based on my family stories. It would be all hidden in a discreet story and maybe when they get older the intrigue would haunt them enough to investigate about it by themselves. It would bring them a sense of accomplishment along with the pride they would feel in knowing more about the relatives that somehow they might not even encounter in their own life. One noteworthy person is my dad. He is already dead before we even had kids. So by the time our kids grow up it will be just like how it is with my other grandpa, who died early in life. I rummaged everything I can find when I was a kid, everytime we visit the province. The stories about him were very few so I treasured them more.

I hope it would be the same for our future kids. That is something that would make me happy. For them to know their relatives so much that they would feel close to them even when they havent met them in their actual life. That would be great.