When attempting to define terms, one often experiences a sensation similar to an undercurrent, one may appear to have level footing within the context of a word; only to be dragged into an ocean of affiliations and interpretations. Defining a word is not an easy matter. The word “family” is an infinite example simply because an individual may have a millions words that are associated with family, and with over 6 billion individuals in the world, the term “family” assumedly has at least 6 billion definitions.
Personally, “family” is a combination of two things of “being” and of “action.” “Being” is more to suggest the passive quality of family in the act of embodying. Essentially, one’s mother, father, sister and brother, all are rooted in the category of existing within in an individual’s life. They may not nurture or neglect, they may love or hate, but regardless they have a predesignated presence in one’s life (even if that presence comes in the form of abandonment). In contrast to “being,” another group of people fall into the family of action. These are the people who are (for the most part) aware of their responsibility to one another. A “family of action” might be friends but may include individuals from one’s “family of being” as well. Essentially a “family” is a collection of people who are actively present in each other’s life.
