Mary Njoku has shared a simple but thought-provoking take on the difference between having a blood connection with someone and actually considering that person family.
In a post she shared on her page, she wrote :
“Your RELATIVE is NOT necessarily your FAMILY There’s a huge difference.A relative is someone you are connected to by blood. Someone God gave the first opportunity to become your family. They get the first “interview,” so to speak.Some will pass. Some will fail.A relative becomes family when that blood connection is strengthened by love, loyalty, honesty, presence, and a genuine desire to see you happy and succeed.And when a relative lacks all of these things. When they resent your happiness, undermine your growth, disappear when you need them, or secretly want to see you fail, they are not FAMILY. They are simply a relative who failed the interview. And in some cases… a RESIDENT EVIL. 😂”
Her point is pretty straightforward: being related by blood may make someone your relative, but it doesn’t automatically make them family. She believes family is also about love, loyalty, support, honesty and genuinely wanting the other person to succeed.
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