Week 2

I don’t want to imagine something so difficult happening to my family, but for assignment sake. If had to flee to another county with three items that I hold dear to me and that represent my family culture they would be my bible, a photo album of my most prized family pictures and my sense of hope and joy. 

 

I had a difficult time trying to decide what to bring with me as I fled the country, the reason is my family culture is based on more than material things. The culture that I grew up in and that I tried to raise my kids in is of love, kindness, respect and hope. My bible would be my most cherished possession that I would want to keep. I would be considered a picture hoarder due to the number I take and have. I have learned the hard way that sometimes that is all you have left to hold on to. As far as my hope and joy, it is what keeps me going. 

 

I would be devastated to give up any of my possessions, but I will place my pictures in my bible and no one can take away my hope and joy unless I allow them too. 

 

The insights of this assignment was I first thought of the immigrants that have innocently had to flee to their county and what a hard decision they must have had deciding what to leave behind. I thought about all of the things that are important to me that I would only hope I would keep in the depths of my heart for memory sake. I battled fear as I thought of the worry I would have of losing someone I loved or something I treasured. I also realize that what we would each decide to bring would be as different as our culture's are.