......."NOBODY GETS LEFT BEHIND OR FORGOTTEN".........

..........OUR FAMILY........


        Have you ever been lost in a big department store, when you were still a little kid?  Who do you think looks for you first?  The family is the basic unit of the human society.  When we think of what sociologist say, we then turn all the way back to Genesis and the creation of God when He said; "It is not good for man to be alone. I will make him a helpmate like himself."
       Thus, the family is not just something you can get out the blue but it is also a necessity.  It is where our primary source of comfort comes from at the beginning of our lives.
       This is my story:  A little girl was lost in a big shopping mall in a big city once.  She cried her heart out looking for her parents, looking at the signs trying to figure out where she was while brushing off the probing stares of people who never ever mind to help, thinking that some stranger out of nowhere would just pick her up and watch her away and along with that the hope of ever seeing her family again.  She didn't know what to do simply because she was still four years old and it was her first traumatic experiences ever.
       It was my friend little girl that time felt so helpless losing herself away from her family.  She walked to and fro, climbed up and down the escalator but still didn't find anybody familiar to her.  From this experience, she came to comprehend what the real value of her family is and how important they are to her.  After half an hour of crying, a security guard on post found her as she walked along the hall ways.  He brought her to the area where there were three kids with the same case she had.  She called it "the area of the lost kids".  A young lady reached out to her asking her the name and the name of her mother. She hardly  heard her since she was in the verge of drowning herself in the lost forest of anxiety and apprehensions that the only word that came out of her mouth was the word "mommy" shouting it out loud.
      After several minutes, sitting on a chair and sobbing, she saw a familiar shoe that belonged to somebody whom she knew well.  She slowly gazed up, hoping and wishing it would be her mom.  And there she was, standing in front of her with a worried face of which she felt.  All those minutes of looking for her in a big place thinking all the while that nobody would probably care for her little girl apparently tormented her.  At that moment of her life, she felt the inner peace and tranquility, she so wanted and needed right that very moment.  She hugged her mom and dad so tight leaving all her fears and worries as they wiped her tears away.
      Our family is the immediate people with whom we find comfort and it is only in our home we find serenity.
You know what, so much about having a family?  It is when, even when  you lose everything you have, may it be a love, friend or comrades.  They are still there when everybody else has turned their backs on you.  It is when you feel you're fifty feet below the ground, they're still there ever ready to pull you up, giving unconditional support and undying love.  These are the people whom you don't need to say a word to, they immediately know what comfort to give.
       Our family is the beginning and home  of all human love.  That is why we need to be together in the family.  It is the we of me".......