Real Talk: Lessons (Finding Myself)

Family

Hello...

I LOVE my family. I mean it, I seriously do.

But sometimes things just get a little out of hand.

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OKAY, so there's me, my five brothers, my baby sister, and my older sisters.

Both older sisters live in New York, one of which had lived there her whole life while the other lived with us.

'Us' as in my five brothers and me, my baby sister was born until just last year (2015) October.

When I say chaos. I mean utter CHAOS. (Ha ha cows, IDEK just random thought)

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So yeah, what family doesn't like to have fun?

I mean some real, make a gigantic, get in some real deep (add your own word here, be very descriptive) trouble. Landlord trouble.

But, HECK YEAH, we didn't get caught.

I'm not sure if I should really say, landlord because we lived in a house, but it didn't belong to us. We did a lot of... house abolishing stuff.

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First off my older sister. She can be fun when she wants to be. Which is namely rare. But if she wanted I'm pretty sure she'd be able to make us laugh once in a while. Speaking of...

One day all of us were in the living room of our old house. Just chillin' and I'm pretty sure we were supposed to be attending chores but none of us were in the mood for that. We were having a relaxing day because unfortunately for my mom we weren't really in the mood to do anything.

My sister... let's call her Rhonda, was suppose to be doing something but she never got around to it. Her own fault in any case.

I'm pretty sure my mother told her to stop messing with the belt she was playing with and when she didn't karma came around to bite her in the butt, hard. She kept swinging the belt around her face and playing with it. And with one final swing,

WAP, she had hit herself in the face with the belt. I know it hurt because of the way her face twisted from confusion, shock, and the sting of the belt to bitter laughter.

On the other hand, all of us that were in the living room at the time started cracking up and dying  with laughter. Rhonda eventually started laughing after her small fit of us laughing at her misfortune, but the one thing she needed to remember was that it was all on her.

Fun times...

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A time my whole family was involved in wrecking our house was...

The day started off calm. We were out of school and it had started getting late. Really late. Some of the family was already asleep, mainly the youngest ones of us all. My mother, older brother, older sister, dad, and me were still up.

Except my dad wasn't  in the house at the time.

Now remember these were the times when we were all younger and did anything stupid that we all found fun or funny. 

Yes, we are still relatively young but people have to find their way and learn to grow up in different circumstances than others.

See now my mom had water balloons filled up and stocked for our next attack plan. We had already gotten my mom's best friend and children with the water filled latex rubber. (But that's a story for another time)

I'm pretty sure my dad had just gotten home and we were inside the house waiting for him... waiting to attack. But my brother being the trader he was took my dad's side. As soon as the man of the house stepped through the door he was pelted with water balloons.He ran back out of the house after being pelted my brother chasing after him. Us, the women/girls, closed the door and locked it laughing our butts off. My brother had bang on the door telling us to let him in, but somewhere in there we ended up shouting 'Every man for themselves'... and thus is when he turned to the dark side.

My dad and him had teamed up to inihalate us. It was a back and forth banter with my dad trying to open the house door and mt older brother sneaking in trying to grab the balloons from our secret stashes. But my dad being my dad didn't like to play fair...

So what he does is he tells my brother to go around back and grab the hose. Finally able to get the door open they drench the entire living room in water. They got us by a long shot. My mom ended up telling my sister to sneak and turn the water off in the back so they could no longer use the hose. It went like that until my dad eventually figured out what was happenning with the water.

We laughed, got soaked, and went crazy for a day.

Fun times...

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A family might not be something you have at the time, but worrying about what other people have. And what you don't have, wondering in the dark, and picturing yourself alone is not something that should break you. 

In time, you create your own special family. The simple few that don't drag you down but pick you up instead. As you get older things do change, yes, but if you've chosen those selected few carefully then you have nothing to worry about.

A family isn't something you get out of a magic hat or having things that or 'with it', that other people think to make you cool. It's about people that have faith in you and will stick beside you when you stumble and fall.

You don't choose your family, but you can surely help make the one you have bigger.

Take this as lesson six...

Family are the ones that love unconditionally...

No matter how insane it can all get...

Goodbye!