What creates a family? I really don’t think that it is the blood that people share. You can share the same blood as someone and not want anything to do with them, or maybe not even know that you are related, maybe never have even met. I think that family is created between people who love and care about each other. If it’s some friends or maybe people who took care of you and that you lived with for whatever reason. Maybe it’s just a group of people who were thrown together in some unusual circumstances. The blood running through the veins of a person does not create the person that they are, any more than it creates the person’s family or the group that they belong with. Sometimes you simply fit with another person and they become your family. You love and care about each other, support each other through the good and the hard times.
I feel bad for the people that constantly push away the people who simply want to love them. Want to be there for them and give them a place to belong. I think that some people are so afraid of being rejected or hurt if they let people be close enough to consider them family that they would rather just keep everyone at arms length and not give them the chance to get close enough to hurt them. Sadly, sometimes people do get hurt by the people who they love the most, but without risking it, you may never know the love of a family.
