My Family Heritage Is Important To Me

Did you know the average family spends 34 minutes together each day? We don’t even notice but this is a true fact after you sit and think about it. Over the past 4000 years almost every society, tribe, family or group of people have tried to preserve it history. It is only your choice whether you decide for it to be forgotten or lost.

Family Heritage is a very valuable thing to have with you and passing it on strengthens families. It gives you a bond that you can hold onto or think about when it comes to certain times in life. It gives you a piece of information than none of your friends can truly have because it belongs to you and your family. Family heritage is something you can give that can’t be stolen form you because it portrays and

On the weekends I stay at home to play my phone, read or hang out with friends. I have only recently released the lack of time I spend with my family and it has really struck me. Here on Christmas Island, we are very close to our relatives and we spend a lot of time with them. Or do we? How many of you actually spend quality time with them? Many of us would rather binge watch the entire eight seasons of The Vampire Diaries then go and learn something about your past. Passing on this heritage happens orally, through books, artefacts photographs, art, objects or spending time together and that is why the relationship is important. This history can hold a moral, an advice, a memory or it could even hold emotions. We don’t know how much time our parents or grandparents have so we should be spending a bit more than 34 minutes with them every day. As or elders grow older, this heritage slowly dies too. Studies have shown that heritage can bring people together and unify them. It gives you an understanding of where you come from, who you are and what previous generations must have felt like. This knowledge won’t only help others see who you are but it makes you see who you