Title: Sunday Breakfast
Source: Personal Experience
Relation: Comparing personal family rituals to how they shape my identity as the person I am today.
Commentary: Every Sunday my family would get together and have our breakfast. My sister would sometimes join us if she could get off from work. This breakfast was special, and it was different than the other days. It became a ritual for my family. It usually started off as casual conversation, then arguing, then resolution and casual conversation once again.
We did this every week, or tried to at least. I grew up loving Sunday morning, even when we didn't get together, because in my head i associated Sunday morning as a "happy" time in my head. Things are different here in school, away from home, but I still kept that idea of closure and stability that my family taught me to hold on to wherever I go.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Family Relations
Title: Stress on a family...for the better or worse?
Source: Personal example of my family's household.
Relation: Describes family relations and their connection to deterioration or strength on the family unit.
Commentary: No family is perfect, and every family has arguments. It wouldn't be normal if a family was always "happy go lucky". Therefore, we are left with either the family that argues occasionally, or the family that argues constantly. Then we are left with the outcome of those arguments. Not short term, but long term. Let's take the family that argues all the time as an example. This family disagrees on a lot of things. The mom is working in the house, the dad is doing business outside the house, the daughter recently discovered boys, and the teenage boy goes through his rebellious stage of wanting to destroy everything. This was my family a few years ago. And although my parents are together, and we are a close family, based on the image I just sketched out, you may see where this family would run into some bumps.
So this somewhat hypothetical family argues. Ok...now what? Most likely the short term outcome is where everyone is pissed off at each other and they go their own ways temporarily to cool their tempers after a heated argument. Technically speaking, their are two ways this could go down next. Either the family works things out, and becomes a stronger family unit, OR the family simply cannot understand each other and they slowly begin to deteriorate. To say there is an "in between" would be saying that the actual argument was never addressed, therefore shrugged off. This would also make the family weaker by disregarding issues and important matters that need to be worked out.
I have been a guest in the household of both these types of families when the argument went down, and it was very interesting seeing how they both unfolded in very different ways, and how their results differ from my own.
Source: Personal example of my family's household.
Relation: Describes family relations and their connection to deterioration or strength on the family unit.
Commentary: No family is perfect, and every family has arguments. It wouldn't be normal if a family was always "happy go lucky". Therefore, we are left with either the family that argues occasionally, or the family that argues constantly. Then we are left with the outcome of those arguments. Not short term, but long term. Let's take the family that argues all the time as an example. This family disagrees on a lot of things. The mom is working in the house, the dad is doing business outside the house, the daughter recently discovered boys, and the teenage boy goes through his rebellious stage of wanting to destroy everything. This was my family a few years ago. And although my parents are together, and we are a close family, based on the image I just sketched out, you may see where this family would run into some bumps.
So this somewhat hypothetical family argues. Ok...now what? Most likely the short term outcome is where everyone is pissed off at each other and they go their own ways temporarily to cool their tempers after a heated argument. Technically speaking, their are two ways this could go down next. Either the family works things out, and becomes a stronger family unit, OR the family simply cannot understand each other and they slowly begin to deteriorate. To say there is an "in between" would be saying that the actual argument was never addressed, therefore shrugged off. This would also make the family weaker by disregarding issues and important matters that need to be worked out.
I have been a guest in the household of both these types of families when the argument went down, and it was very interesting seeing how they both unfolded in very different ways, and how their results differ from my own.
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