On the Topic of Family

(Warning: I'm about to try to get deep but probably fail miserably.)

So I was doing some thinking about "A New World, A New Family," and a thought kept occurring to me. That thought: family is a weird-ass motherfucker. Literally nothing about family makes sense. You hate each other, you love each other, you couldn't imagine life without one another, you wish you were on your own, away from these crazy people, and you help each other all at once. You take the good and the bad, and while you complain, deep down, you wouldn't have it any other way. And the other strange thing: if there's one thing I've learned from MLP, Pokemon, Xenoblade Chronicles, Doctor Who, Star Trek, and even Markiplier, it's that how you're bound to your family doesn't matter. All that matters is that you're a family. Sure, a family could be something boring like "father, mother, brother, sister," or "father, father, daughter," or even, "mother, puppy," but family doesn't have to be confined to that sort of definition. A family can be "two friends, a stranger, a badass, an angel, a little ball of fun, and a cyborg," "a kid, a mouse, a frog, a phoenix, a hawk, and a pile of goo," "six horses and a dragon," or even something simple, like "a man and his box." (Gold star for whoever can guess whether I was talking about Doctor Who or Markiplier just now.) Then there's one more odd thing about family: how you all come together. Most families I know of aren't even related by blood or marriage, but rather by an enduring friendship, hardened by time, on the battlefield, through hardship, or just because it happened and no one ever did anything about it. And it's these weird things that can bring several families together, and merge them all into one larger family.
When you think about it, we could all be one giant mosh pit of a family. A giant ball of family-wamily stuff that can't be unwound no matter how hard we try, so our only choice is to stay together, and learn to live alongside one another. Learn to accept the fact that we all have this single world we live in to share. Learn that, though we may seem different, we're all related in some way, and we're all going to affect each other some day. There's no escaping who we are, and who we are is each other. The least we could do is build one another up until one day, we can all rise to greatness.

When you think about it... family is an extraordinary thing.