My Family Culture

I am imagining that a major catastrophe occurred in my area. I had to be relocated to a different part of the world with a completely different culture than my own. If I could only take three items that I held dear to my heart I would take the photo album of my family that has pictures from when I was a child until now having my own child. I would want to look and remember my family everyday and how much they mean to mean and how I was raised. I would also want to remember my culture and how we presented ourselves as individuals.

I would also take a iPod so that I could listen to all of the music that I enjoyed on a daily basis. Music has been a big part of my life especially when expressing my feelings and memories in my life. Music has captured some of my personal experiences in words and sounds. Without music I would be forced to express my feelings just in word form but to express it in music is so much easier for me.

 I would also take a camera to capture the new moments that I was going to start with my family in a new culture.I love taking pictures and sharing them with others. Especially pictures of my family, son and all of our special memories together. I would want to continue to capture these moments throughout our lives no matter where we are living.

If I was told that I could only keep one of these personal items I would chose to keep old pictures of my family. To me it would be important for my future children to see our culture and how I was raised. I would also want them to be able to see what their family looked like when I was talking about a specific person and how special they were to me.

I think it is scary to think about what would happen if you couldn't live the same life in the same culture suddenly. If you couldn't pack up and take everything with you. It is important to cherish those special memories and times because you really don't know  when something could happen and a loved one or your culture could be taken away from you.