Family Day

This past weekend was the first time that all of Canada celebrated the family day holiday. The day was meant to be one wherever family would spend some quality time together, enjoying each other’s company. In Alberta, we’ve always had this holiday, well as far as I can remember. We use to have special tasks in school to celebrate this long weekend, making family tress, writing about what family means to us, describing what we enjoy doing with our family..etc. I’m not sure if they started this in school all across the country but I believe it’s a good exercise. After all family is family, they are the ones who are suppose to pick you up when no one else will, they are suppose to be your safe guards, your unconditional love, they are suppose to always have your back in any way you need.

The family unit these days seem to have disappeared, parents feed up with their children, siblings being selfishly into themselves not caring about each other… everyone is just so busy and caught up with themselves. Probably why most people after a certain age are alone. Why there is so much divorce, why there are so little attributed to a real family these days. How is it that we can gain back that prestigious family entity? Is it not something we all want and cherish so much? What happens when we’re so caught up in making a new family that we forget about those people who we were born with, the ones we made our family in the past? Is it fair that we just drop them now that we want to move onto a new family? Who will you run back to one your life ends up in divorce? Should the people you abandon let you back in?

Family day, enjoy it with your family or go back to work!