Generations Of Love

Everyone has their own life story to tell, although I've shared countless amounts of things on this blog, I try not to be too specific about situations. I do this because I try to connect and relate with this community of people that choose to read the things I write. I could be the complete opposite of whoever is reading this, not being like minded at all. But if we can relate to something and I can help humanize the situation for better understanding, then writing this will be all worth it. Just being a part of something bigger than myself is a reward to me, because we live in a world where nobody wants to listen but everyone wants to be understood. And if I could help in my own way of communication that will help you understand something unfamiliar, then I'll have felt that I've helped just that much more. I promise I have a point that I'm making, I'm really just trying to say I put a lot of heart, thought and work into all of these blogs and I only write about things that I feel most inspired by. Which brings me to the specific topic that I was not trying to be specific about.
I have always thought of family to be my number one priority in life, nothing else in this life has mattered to me as much as they do. I don't know how everyone else has grown up or who they had around them whilst growing up?? But I grew up with my immediate family. I had my mom and sometimes had my dad, but I had two of the greatest uncles to help my mom raise me when my dad couldn't. My grandma was there for me, one of my tia's became a second mom to me because I was always with her and my cousin's every chance I got. And well, two of my cousins turned into siblings, as much as I was around them. I have all of these great memories that I've made with them all. We are a very close knitted family and I'll love them until the very last breath that I take.
I have been in reflection of this for a while and have come to realize how blessed I have always been. They always took care of my sisters and I as their own. I look at how much my uncles and tias have showed me love in all stages of my life and I see a trend. One that I have learned to follow. I see my sister and I showing this same kind of love to our nieces and nephews. I never understood fully why they loved me as much as they did. And as I turned into a tia, I slowly began to understand their love for me as I have loved my nieces and nephews. They're little versions of your siblings that you can't help but love.
I don't know if all families are this way, but at one point of my life someone had mistaken my niece as if she were my own daughter. It was funny to me at the time but in retrospect, it made me see just how close I was to my niece. I mean, I would do anything for my sister's kids, they're my world and they make life so beautiful and precious. And as I said, loving them has made me understand even more of the love that my tias and tios have for me. It was great, how much they had taught me unconditional love because I was able to transfer such love to my nieces and nephews.
The extent of this love that was shown to me has given me some of the best relationships. The way that I love my crazy family is to the point of disgustion and in return they show me the same kind of disgusting love. The bonds that I have with them could never be broken. I have gone through all kinds of hells with them to let anything ever break that kind of bond that I have with them all. I know there are folks that don't understand this kind of love. That this love is so foreign and rare to people these days. And the one thing I can tell you is that this kind of love doesn't just happen over night. Both parties have to want this and work equally at this kind of bond. Sometimes it's hard, but nothing in this life that's worth having ever comes easy. Having this connection is like nothing else that I've ever had in this life. It's something that I hold dearest to my heart. It's something that is stained on my brain, never to be washed away. I could never unlearn this type of love nor would I ever want to.
I feel really blessed to have been taught such love because I know that not everone has this. I hope that ultimately, my nieces and nephews learn the same thing from me because as Florence Welch once said at a concert that I went to, "spread the love, because the world needs more love!!"