Family

Linda Manzano

Mrs. Croker

College Composition

March 3, 2012

Family

            Family is a great thing to have and the more the merrier it is. Growing up as a child my family went through many financial struggles but the family was always there to provide help. My mother side of the family was always involved during my childhood   while my father’s weren’t as much. Even my father was not around to see me grow because he was working in California while I was in Mexico with my mother.  As I grew older I got to meet my father’s side of the family and I wish that we had bonded with each other in my childhood.

            I will always have a stronger love for the family members from my mother’s side. The earliest memories of my life is about my aunts and uncles showering me with love. I cannot say that with my father’s side of the family for I began to interact with them in a later part of my life. Those aunts and uncles from my mother’s said of the family developed a strong relationship with me. They know things about that my father’s side of the family don’t. My aunts and uncles from my mother’s side of the family know that I was a good dancer and that at one point in my life it was a passion for me.  They basically know me inside out because they have watched my actions and reactions. My father’s side of the family will never know me like that because I can tell them about me but it is not the same as them forming their own opinion of me based on just watching me as I grew.

            I like my father’s side of the family but I wonder why they seem to have not taken interest in me and my sibling when we were children. It was later in life that they began to take interest in me. They truly do love me and have shared very important moments with me. I wish they would have been there for me when was younger because there were instances where I felt they did not care about me. They have redeemed themselves through their most recent actions. I have come to truly look at them as aunts and uncles and not as strangers. They have even been part of my children’s childhood and that makes me love them a little bit more but it also reminds me that they were not there in my childhood.

            I have no hard feelings for my father’s side of the family. The way I look at it the more the merrier.  My father side of the family have shown me that they really do care about me.  I can now look at my aunts and uncles for what they are and not as strangers. But I cannot love them as much as I love my mother’s side of the family.