Sometimes we get along with
our families and sometimes we do not. The times when we do not, we ask
ourselves why I am in this family; or why my sister or brother behaves that
way?; or why my aunt cannot forgive? And so on. We wish they would understand
us better and that they would do things the same way we would.
I am going to
refer now to Maui which is the place I am right now. Maui is not only beautiful and
famous for its views. Maui has a lot of attractions for all type of people. The
same way a lot of people who lives here, are here for different reasons. I find
interesting the fact that almost 80% of the people (from my inner census), who
leaves here, came from other places. From this 80%, even the ones born here
their parents or grandparents came from other places in the US or other parts
of the world. What we have in common is that almost all of us find Maui as our
home, even though we are all immigrants here. Actually the fact that we are all
from elsewhere, make us more open to accept each other (of course there are
exceptions as always, I am trying to give a big picture here).
This just came
to my mind the other day when I was talking to a friend about our families. We
are a little bit far from mainland, 5 hours from California and 7 hours from
Japan on an airplane, and a lot of the people here if not most of us, we have
our relatives somewhere else in mainland. This make some of us miss our families
very much and others, I have heard them saying: "good that I am far away from my family
drama"… What I truly believe is that our family are those people we find
everywhere we go and who take care of us, family is not only a blood related
person who we call brother or sister; family are those brothers and sisters we
find along our journey on this planet. When we find the beauty of sharing being
away from our blood relatives, we find on each other a family member and we do
not feel alone anymore. We feel at home.