The Return of Home



The Return of Home

Introduction

The significance of family and vale of its love was always explained and elaborated to me in many ways since I was young. I believe, a family does not only mean one's mother, father, brother, sister or close relatives. A family member can be anyone who deeply cares for you, remain around you and wish for happiness and success. It is completely dependent on the preference of people, some would like to be with family or relatives and some would like to stay away from them or remain isolated. A family is a valuable part of life. A person must spend certain time with their family and closed ones, because it strengthens the relationship and results into long lasting bond without having any selfish desires behind it. In my opinion, a family does not only represent just a perfect picture in one's life, instead, it should be a strong bond that prospers in one's heart.

Discussion

Whenever, I look at my family photo, it makes me more emotional and sentimental. It keeps my cognizant content and satisfied from within. The thought that makes me happy at this moment is due to the arrival of my sister after a long time period of twelve years. She has migrated to America from Haiti leaving her own family behind in a hope to develop new family. In addition to it, I was also returning back to home and so as my nephew. I was the one leaning on the table and smiling with the black, white, and red dress in the family photograph of mine. Both of my aunts were standing on my left and my little sister who was wearing all black was standing right behind my aunts. My tiny oldest sister was right by my youngest sister's side, and my nephew was right behind them holding my niece on top of his head. On my right was my nephew, who was around the same age as me was right behind me with his girlfriend by his side. There were many cousins of mine along with close family friends standing right behind me in the family photograph that I had never got a chance to meet before this picture (Cohen, 1999).

Everyone in the family picture looked a lot happier in it, but, not all of them wanted to become part of it at that time. This is the reason why this picture is the dearer to me. This picture was certainly not planned as nobody was dressed up and prepared for a perfect picture click (Geiger, 2002). This photograph was unique and simple, and it was taken on the day of my sister's twenty-first surprise birthday party. It was an important day for all of us as we were celebrating together as a family. I haven't felt like that for a long time and I guess this is such a great memory for me and shall always be piece of my heart (Cohen, ...