A not related by blood family

Family isn't about always blood,its the people in your life who want you in their;the one who accept you for who you are,the ones who could do everything to see you smile and who love you no matter what.

Maayong udto /maupay na udto/magandang tanghali or shall I say good afternoon my read.cash family!How was everyone here?I hope that you are all doing great and fine .

I just finished my laundry and I feel tired but then, when I checked my facebook account ,I saw a post of my neighbor before when we are living at country side .And it gives me an idea what to write now .

We are living at the country side before ,my parents was the caretaker of my grandfathers lot ,we don't have any relatives in that place ,we had only 5 neighbors and they are all related ,we the only family who is not related by blood to them.We live peacefully even we are far from the city ,every saturday my mother are selling vegetables and fruits in the market and buy our needs ,we only went to the city once a week .Many times that we running out of stock of some kitchen needs like,salt ,sugar,rice, even the matches and etcera.Everytime that we don't have something to use especially we used for cooking ,my mother would say "just borrow 2 spoons of salt in our neighbor ,I will give it back to them this saturday " not only salt ,everything we need ,like rice also especially money we borrowed them ,and when we don't have matches since we are cooking by using of woods,we don't have lpg ,we waited if they done cooking coz we will asked "kayu or baga or apoy ,I don't know whats the english term of it .

When they were selling copra ,they will gave us 1kilo of fish and bread ,they will shared to us whatever the blessings they recieved,we also doing what they did to us ,were just like a big family in that place ,whatever blessings we recieved each other ,we never forget our neighbor.If there will be a celebration ,we celebrated as a big family ,we are not related by blood but we called each other,treat each other as a family.

When my ate(eldest sister)was able to find a job ,she was a teacher of a public school and because she felt pity for our younger siblings,she was thinking the struggle going to school coz we need to walked for 30-40minutes going to school ,there will no transportation ,we need to walk and its hard especially if its raining coz the kids having hard walking in the muddy way .My ate decided to find space near at the school and luckily our grandfathers couzin offered her space for us and we migrated that place ,a big adjustment we did because we never knew our nieghbor ,we don't know them ,we don't know their personality and honestly we really missed our place and also our neighbor there which we treated as a family as well.

Every fiesta in our place ,we always invite our neighbor before and we always having a chitchat of our lives before ,and truly they missed us also .When we had time we visited them ,we bring some foods we never forget them .

When I get married,on my 1st son's baptism before we invited my family and they asked me why only them our visitor,they are asking about our neighbor and I told them its a big different in our place before ,here at my husband place I can't see our lives before with our neighbor its like they don't have neighbor at all .Sometimes when we had a celebration I asked my husband to give some foods to our neighbor especially those who feel hard in their life ,like some farmers and charcoal maker and that is why last 2020 christmas I was giving some gifts to our kids neighbor and I would like to asked an apology for those who give some amount for my plan for the christmas but I wasn't able to give some gifts to them ,I am still find some perfect time for it ,its hard to give them at this time coz the people here will think that we are rich and they will include us for benificiary of some relief goods ,so I 'll just waiting for a perfect timing ,I still had those amount .

Love your neighbor and treat them as your family❤️

And thats it for today ,I write this article coz I missed my neighbor before ,they are not only our neighbor but they are also our family .Just like you guys ,your my family here in this platform and I must say that I am so thankful that I meet some people like you .

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