Family Is Key: My Life Lesson

Hello everyone here hope that you are doing great today.

Life can be so real, some people live in emotions while some live in reality. Life is a teacher, and everyone gets to learn one thing or the other.
I have learned a lot in life and I have also unlearned and relearned.

For up was fun for us, mom and dad taught us well. They never wanted us to be known for anything bad. They made us understand life at a very young age.

I remember one day when I was still in basic school. I had issues with my cousin because I was not exposed to how to have some things.

My parents told us one day that, we should not eat from anyone's house again and we stuck to that. So one day we went to my uncle's house and we served some food.
So we said we would not eat the food because our mom told me I should not eat from their house again, my uncle and his wife insisted that we eat the food, but we said no to them.

This continued for some time, and then one day, my cousin came to our has we were taught by my mom that we should welcome any visitor we had, we served him food and he refused to eat the meal, when I asked him why, he said that because I did not eat in the house the other time I came.
So my mom overheard it and I got very angry. So she called the parents immediately and reported it to them, and the parents said that my cousin was right. My parents got so angry and told me not to go to my uncle's house anymore.

My parents had that in their minds for a very long time, we did not have any cousins to play with because we were cut off from them. I was not okay with that because I was always thinking that I was the cause of all the problems we had in our extended family.

Every time I ask my mom about it, she says she does not want to talk about it. I left with guilt and this was hurting me so much.

So one day I summed up my courage and approached my father. I told them how I was feeling about the problem. So he told me that I should learn how to give a reported speech, especially when it concerns family.
That the way I said what I said to my uncle was not nice, and that I was the problem since they wanted to teach me self-control.
He further said that I should go to my cousin and apologize to him.

So u went to my cousin and told him why I did that, by that time were all grown up, so we understood ourselves. He even told me that his parent taught him that there was a problem, not knowing that I was being taught self-control.

I learned how to live because it is not everything you need to sag the way you were told so as not to put fire on.
Family is very important so we must know how to handle issues that concern the family with wisdom to avoid a big problem.