"...You can go your whole life collecting days,
and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day
I'd like to go back to those times when my family would go to Sumagdang beach. In the scorching heat, we would grill tulingans and snack on boiled bananas. And at the end of the day, the grownups would have to pull the children out of the water because if we had it our way, we would never leave.
No, it hasn't always been sunshine and rainbows. There were bad times. There will always be bad times, but it's always more gratifying to remember the joys instead of the pains, the victories instead of the failures, the kindness instead of the cruelty. No one is perfect--not even the parents we thought to be invincible. Not even the sister that we looked up to with starry eyes. Your family will hurt you, but the pain should never outweigh the love. The bitterness should never outweigh the love.
Family is about both the good and the bad memories. Family is about making every moment count. You have a lifetime's worth of stories to create and recreate together, and at the end of that lifetime, you'd get to look back and read these wonderfully flawed stories that are perfect in their own imperfect ways.
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."
- Anthony Brandt
What comes into your mind when you're asked about your family? What do you remember? What do you choose to remember?
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