FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Family and friends are important for any individual who live in a society.

Everyone is a son or daughter of a couple consisting of a man and woman brought together by marriage.

All these relationships fall within a family.

The genes from one generation are passed on to the next generation to keep intact some of the major characters which determine the phenotype.

Genetics plays an important role in a family.

The DNA finger print can tell us about our identity in a family.

The techniques are well advanced nowadays.

Biology of a family tells us that we belong to a particular genetic stock.

Characters and even diseases are inherited from the parents and grand-parents; thus genetic characters decide the life and life style of the progenies in a family.

 Over time, if we look at the family tree, we find some are very near relatives whereas many are distant relatives.

Most of the distant relatives are forgotten over time keeping the close relatives in touch.

Friends are people belonging to another family who are associated either in schools as class-mates, or colleagues in working places or persons introduced by some family members or others.

Some say that friends are better than the family members.

In every family there are ups and downs because of the earning capacities.

Among brothers or sisters, some may be rich and some may be poor or some may be highly educated and some may not be.

Thus the disparity among the individuals in a family, in fact, brings in many problems.

In any difficult times family members are supposed to help each other financially and emotionally.

Even good and close friends do that.

Most of the families lived together in a large house keeping the senior person as the head of the family.

The members are supposed to respect the head, who generally moderate the problems of the family.

Such joint family system is slowly vanishing in India because of various reasons such as work at far of places and also to live away independently to gain more freedom to lead a family.

The desire has been induced by independence of thought and free from interference from other family members.

Many families are broken into small pieces and lead independent life.

Such independent families invariably depend on their friends who live nearby.

Thus in today’s modern life, we find friends are more helpful both in joy and sadness.

Mutual help is rendered between friends whenever needed.

In this vast world, some of our friends only can make a unit or group to enjoy life together whereas we can not make friends with everyone.

Like-mindedness is one of the important characteristics needed for making someone as a friend who can keep the family secrets.

Family, at the initial stage will be intact, but over time when it expands through marriage and child birth it start dividing and brings in more divisions and controversies.

“Blood relationship” – some say then they refer to a family whereas such relationship does not exist with friends.

Even friends can become enemies due to misunderstandings.

Therefore, one has to be cautious with anyone whether friends or members of the family.

In order to have a good relation with everyone, one has to apply his mind and also one has to understand the attitude of others.

Family and friends are very much needed to make our life happy and healthy.