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Essay On Friends Come And Go But Family Is Forever

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The friendly statement by Edna Buchanan which says, “friends are the family we choose for ourselves” is the statement that has resonated with me for the last several years! Can a person really outgrow and entire family? In the last several years I have learned that; yes, indeed a person can outgrow the very people that they have been born to and an entire family they have grown up with. You may have heard it said, “friends come and go but family is forever”. The people that you’d think that you are the closest to; the very same people that you are blood relation to, can destroy the very statement: “family is forever!” and within the last five years, I have come to disagree with the statement; “friends come and go but family is forever”. …show more content…

Perhaps you outgrow the friendship…perhaps life takes the friendship into a different direction. Families are sometimes crazy and dysfunctional and there is nothing wrong with going through the disowning phase. I have a younger brother whom I despise along with his wife and their children. They have caused so much pain and trauma within my own procreative family that I had to separate my procreative family from the toxicity of the relationship. For my wife, my children, and myself, our friends are more like our family than my family themselves. As of now, I have outgrown my parents, brothers and their …show more content…

For us, especially me, family was no longer linked to those people with whom I was linked by blood. My family has now become the friends who have been there for me the whole time. Those who I can count on through thick and thin. People that I know I can count on if something goes wrong or if I need help in an emergency! These people, these friends have shown me and my family that unconditional love and the beliefs of family that my own parents, brothers and extended family could never have shown to me and my procreative family in a million

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