After listening to both the information and interaction of Tuesday's lecture, I began to examine my own family as a whole. Although some of my evaluation I find extremely troubling, some is tremendously helpful in appreciating the values or characteristics your own family does possesses.
One characteristic that stuck with me was "Ability to Cope with Stress" As I listened to everyone share about how they had helped their brother through cancer or through a brothers horrific accident...I commended them greatly and respected them even more-most I have whom I had never meet. I was once on the receiving end...needing support. About eight months ago I was in a terrible accident in the Dominican Republic. It was through the whole process of recovery that I become to truly value family. We all go about are lives knowing that our family is there, but when something like this happens you are exposed to everyone's colors: anger, relief etc.
Through this process, I watch my divorced parents compromise; something I had never seen before (in trying to get me life-flighted out of the DR). They were always respectful of each other when deciding what medical course of action was best. Still to this day they are a "working pair" in dealing with the after-effects of my accident.
So although every family is so extremely diverse and could possibly be lacking in one or two characteristics, sometimes you realize just how luck you are.
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