Family :)

  Define family:  

                  "In human context, a family is a group of people affiliated by consanguinity, affinity, or co-residence. In most societies it is the principal institution for the socialization of children. Anthropologists most generally classify family organization as matrilocal(a mother and her children); conjugal (a wife, husband, and children, also called nuclear family); and consanguinal(also called an extended family) in which parents and children co-reside with other members of one parent's family."

        
                 I am not trying to piss you off with the academic,anthropological definition of family and all but felt would just copy and paste from wikipedia....just to see how many of you guys would be petrified at the thought of an academic,intellectual blog from me :P...oh I was just trying to have fun...well this is the fun part and my thoughts go as.................. 

                     Well sitting back in my room in Delhi and feeling like missing anything...it is nothing but my family and home.The only persons who never judge us and are never tired of us and bear with us all the time and with whatever we do,are ever ready to embrace us in their arms,are empathetic towards us and make us feel awesome is family.In today's materialistic world when everything and anything is based on material gains only a few things are pure and will continue to remain so and definitely one of those very few handpicked things is Family....which gives a feeling of warmth,comfort and a confidence that we are there for you no matter what.  

   

My bro who has been with me at all times :)

                         Looking at the facebook posts of several of my friends who are in their jobs and are excited about going home during the weekeend I understand that it is not only me who understands the importance of family and home but everyone of us who during our bachelors would have found every excuse to go out and spend time with our friends ;).....but now given even half a day we would without any exception love to spend it with our family.Well who can forget the little chocolate fights,stealing money from our siblings,crying foul if our parents show more attention to our elder or younger siblings,fights with even much elder friends in the neighbourhood or at school if they fight with our brother or sister(well it is only me who can fight with them but you lay a hand on them and you are dead :P),dancing in the rain,playing together coming home late and telling excuses,never willing to share a bite of your favourite confectionery....well the list goes on and on and on.

                       

                      How many times our parents would have scolded us saying that we are the worst kids on this planet and that no kid of our age would ever behave like this(at first we would have believed that it is true but later on we come to know that it is the same in every home and

My parents who are the pillars of my strength  :)

smile off ;) ) and that they are fed up with our behaviour but even if we get a small scratch their heart misses a beat....their is immense,their love is pure and their love is unconditional.When I go home even with the worst things happening in my life or turbulence of any sort,one smile from my mom,dad and one call to my brother just puts them away and i feel wonderful...who can give this feeling to you except your FAMILY :)

                Well many of us by this time would have understood how much wonderful it is to have a loving mom who no matter how bad the day was for her would first like to know that everything went on well for us that particular day and that we are happy and we ate on time

(how many times we would have become angry on her saying to let it be ,but now far from her we know how much we miss her and love her) and that awesome creature called dad who acts as strict at times but is working hard and not even caring for his health but day in and day out thinking about us and our well being....saving money so as to provide the best for their kids.

                   How great is a feeling of having such wonderful people around you...we all are lucky and  blessed to have them.But what about those devils or our counterparts in every mischievous deeds of ours and our first friends and best friends for life aka out siblings.How can we ever forget them...Oh my God!!how many times did our moms cry because of us and how many things we broke together..countless ;).The fights that we had we would never have with anyone else not even willing to share an extra morsel of your favorite pudding to cooking their favourite dish,fighting for the goddies to saving money so that you can gift them their favourite,eating off theirs and saving ours for later(hehe i guess each of you must have done that)to offering yours also,complaining every little thing to sharing the secrets that only you two know we have come a long way in our relationship.Sharing about our first crushes to the marriage proposals(well if your sibling has a love interest you are the mediator too and well you may even have to spill the beans to your parents..ha you make have to face the music for being the accomplice too :D).

          As years roll by and we grow up slowly do we understand that we have become more loving and considerate towards or bros and sisters.They would mean everything to us,the first ones we remember when in ours joys,sorrows,proposals and break-ups ;).They become an inevitable part of our lives.We can hardly think of anything in our lives in which they do not  have a role to play.Kudos to all such brothers and sisters.

               Well what you get has to be reflected too.Now that our family has loved us and taken care of us so well it is our responsibility to take care of them.It is the time we take over...we are growing up and so are our parents growing old.They have worked tirelessly for the past 30 years and it is our turn to take care of them.They took care of us when we didn't know how to eat,talk,didn't know what is meant by cleanliness but loved us inspite of all that,woke up all night if we fell ill but never let the smile off their lips...This is my request to all my friends....let us take care of our parents much better than how they took care of us and let us be the ever standing pillar of support to our siblings,yes they deserve this and in fact even something much better.

P.S:I dedicate this article to all the wondeful parents ,brothers and sisters out there who have made good families and gave the best childhood we could ever ask for.THANK YOU :)