While having a 2 hours long conversation with cuz the other day we were suddenly reminded of how we are as a family. We were talking about after all these years, and after all that we all have been through as a family we both realized that we are each others best friends. We all one way or another grew up together, my cousins were my playmates, even before i came to know of other friends, they were my first friends. I guess this is also due to the fact that the siblings of my mom basically live just near each other. Reunions is something that all of us look forward to, because my auntie nene and all my uncles would be giving all of us gifts. I remember lining up to be receiving all of these and of course the best gifts would usually come from Mama (Grandma) and Lolo.
Going back to my most cherished childhood memories of each family gathering that we would have, you would see all my uncles gathered around drinking, and all my aunties in the kitchen, cooking more food or gossiping or laughing out loud. I would also find myself in that same kitchen just listening to all their banter and laughter. And the rest of my cousins are everywhere just creating chaos.
When love eventually started to happen to all of us, we would be bringing boyfriends and girlfriends to the reunions and God how each one of them got grilled and teased. My uncles and guy cousins are merciless specially when it comes to us girls. They would often say that a guy should pass before them before they can get to us, but of course these are just words, because in the end they don't really meddle.
Now all of us are making something of ourselves, as individuals, most of us have their own families already, but we are still all the same to each other. My king's best friends are basically kj, jaja, and alwynn. Ate tin and i are more than cousins. My aunties are still the same, they still are makulit as ever. I still fear my uncles but i think now its more of respect on what they have contributed in me as a person.
We are each others defenders, best friends, secret keepers. We are proud of each other no matter what. Our family definitely is not perfect but what i am most proud of is that we have always been there for each other. In real good times and most of all the really bad times.
I have realized that a persons immense capacity to love is due to how one is loved by its family.
Everything that i know about love i have seen and experienced from my grandparents, my parents and my uncles and aunties.
I am a better friend because my cousins taught me how to not have conditions regarding friendship.
My family has always been my saving grace, the blanket that i wrap around me whenever i feel alone, or beaten by the world or simply scared. They are the ones who always pick me up and slowly urges me to go on. I have learned to be a survivor because we as family are survivors.
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