Importance of Family

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I believe that everything a person experiences should be used in future tasks to help make good decisions. Weather a person knows it or not, our minds often remember good, or especially bad, experiences and use them with regards to the rewards or consequences they produced. For example, a funeral is always a bad experience; however throughout the years we learn how to approach them. A recent death in my family, made me realize, that today family values are less important to some people, then they were when generations older then my own were growing up and what inside the household has changed as far as a traditional family is concerned. I also realized that family values are not only a private issue within each person home, but the government has approached the problem as well in debates and so forth. More over, family values are more then often referred to as the "politics of family" rather then family morals or values (Skolnick). My great Uncle Eddie was very close to me. Everyone has an aunt or an uncle that spoils them, sneaks them treats, or takes them out for a special day. For me, that person was my Uncle Eddie. About a month ago, after several weeks of being gravely ill, he passed away. Although most of my family was expecting it, I had disregarded any possibility that he could actually pass away. For the first time I was really relying on my family, especially my brother, to make me feel better. I am always so positive that my family is going to protect me, therefore I often overlook there guidance. However, this time I was actually looking for it. This experience made me think, are family values as important to modern day Americans, as were to old school Americans? When my grandparents talk about there childhood they speak mostly of each other, and what they did as a family, everyone seemed so tight-knit. When I think of my childhood, or mostly my teenage years I think about my friends and where I was going out, so how has it changed, or more importantly what are the problems, if the values have changed? My Losing Season by Pat Conroy is about a boy that grew up with a military father as he tried to become the best basketball player he could be. This of course, is a slight bit different then many other families.

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