What is family？家庭话题英文散文
Family
My son, when he was 4 years old, began to show great interest in the English word ‘family’ after he had watched the public-interest advertisement of ‘family’ on CCTV. Recently, he has asked me to teach him how to write on his word-pad, and the first English word he wants to learn is ‘family’ because he likes it very much.
Actually, there are a lot of stories about the origin of the English word ‘family’, and one of them goes like this: long, long ago, people should say ‘father and mother, I love you’ to deliver their appreciation to their parents when they got up every morning, and later they created a new word ‘family’ instead of ‘father and mother I love you’ by connecting the first letters of these six words. Another story says that family is from the Latin word ‘familia’ , which means ‘family, household’ and originally ‘slaves of the household.’
‘Family’, in my opinion, could also be understood as ‘female and male interdependently live yearly’. ‘F’ means ‘female’ , ‘A’ is for ‘and’, ‘M’ symbolizes ‘male’, ‘L’ stands for ‘interdependently’, ‘L’ is the short form of ‘live’, and ‘y’ could be known as ‘yearly’.
We all have a family. But it really takes great efforts for a family to live long. We have heard of too many stories about family’s being ‘dead’ from the reports and the people around us; we have seen so many divorces! There are various reasons for a family to become broken, but one thing that we can be sure is that they still do not really understand the true meaning of family. Whenever a divorce occurs, it is not right for us to blame only one of them, for it must be mistakes made by a couple together rather than by a single member in a family.
Actually, there are some codes hiding in the word I think. ‘F’ shows ‘frankness’, ‘A’ can expresses ‘allowance’, ‘M’ delivers ‘mildness’, ‘I’ implies ‘independence’, ‘l’ signifies ‘loyalty’, and ‘y’ points to ‘yearning’. Frankness is a basis to each member in the family, and it is an attitude to your other ‘half’; allowance is a foundation, which shows trust to your family; mildness is a requirement, carrying your respect to your spouse. Interdependence is necessity, and it includes another one’s significance in your heart; loyalty is centrality that contains responsibility to your lover; yearning is a pillar, your love to your family.
The six letters of the word ‘family’ are just like the six surfaces of a cube. Without a single side, a cube would not exist while without a single member, a family would not last.
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