Thin Lines Between Family

Family to me, isn't something you could easily describe off the back. It is complex, well at least my experience with family thus far has been. Ideally, I would think that "family" would never neglect each other, backstab, or set another up for disaster. A family is a group of individuals, no matter what give unconditional love -beyond the meaning of life. Sometimes I feel like I'm in a family alone or like I am my family. Like I said, it's complicated. I consider a certain group of friends my family and it is perhaps very true. Family is what you can count on when you are at your lowest of lows. Family members, say the right things, no matter how harsh it may seem -they always provide the truth and nothing but. Conflict-habitual marriage, realistically fit my definition of a family. A lot of conflict always seem to happen, but we all stayed tied together because we know eventually one day we will need each other. I feel like my biological family is there for me, but only because they have to be. Regardless I will still love them forever and I will carry the weight for the rest of my life if I have to. The media always presents the vital marriage which is everyone's ideal family but I believe if each and every one of us face the reality of conflict and disagreements it makes families all the better, we already know what to expect without the sugar coating.