family values - quotes and descriptions to inspire creative writing

When we walk from the shadows, we walk together. We are family. That’s clan rules. That’s the only way this can ever work. For, you see, whilst love is infinite it cannot be divided; love is not mathematics. You cannot calculate in such a way. All for one, one for all. No-one left behind. That’s us. That’s me. That’s we. That’s all folks; move along or sit at our table and dig in. There’s plenty here for old friends and new.

I feel that family values are a thing you develop when you value your family - when they become what you most cherish beyond any material possession or vehicle for either positive self esteem or negative ego. Yet there are times when you must choose children over other relatives, and this happens more often when you are from a family of intergenerational trauma. That trauma changed the neurology of family members, and it altered the epigenetics too, it's a biological debt inflicted rather than personally earned, yet it is what I needed to figure out if I was to change the fortunes of my own children. I learned there are times to let go of bonds that have become too twisted to ever fix, that by doing so and putting all you efforts into the next generation there is a real chance to win. I think of it as if I am a sailing ship, perfectly balanced with my children aboard. Yet the other relatives insist on sitting all on one side causing a potential capsize. In reality, they have no need of my deck, they are perfectly able to sail away in their own boats. It's simply a matter of finding the courage to break away from them, from the past, and choose a future that has a future.