Family

 The other day I mentioned to my mom that I really like cotton candy grapes. I came home from school the next day to find three bags of cotton candy grapes in my fridge. It turns out my mom went to two different stores and spent an hour and a half looking for those grapes. This is love.

I took the core values test and my results revealed that one of my main values is my family. It was honestly a very difficult test to take because I was forced to choose between things that I highly value like health, honesty, love, family, and financial security. However, while I may want to be healthy and have financial security, I need my family, and this is what set my family apart from the other core values. For me, my family is a necessity, a nonnegotiable, something I cannot live without.

                  My mom often reminds me that friends will come and go, but family is forever. My mom is one of the only people that I know who will stay up late to help me with my homework/studying, wake up in the middle of the night to hold my hair back while I’m puking and also risk herself getting sick, and drive me to my numerous extracurriculars. My dad and mom are the only people that have shown me unconditional love: they have seen me at my worst and still choose to forgive me. They work so incredibly hard to provide me with a good life, a great education, financial stability, and constant support. I can confidently say that my family is my greatest blessing, and when I think of home, it is my mom, dad, and two sisters.

                  So, I suppose the test wasn’t as hard as I believed, because deep down I know that I can't live without my family. They are the ones I look up to, the reason I strive to be the best version of myself.