Family Time Is Important In Daily Routine

Did you spend time with your family today?

Well, I am not asking that of you.

I am rather asking you to ask yourself that question.

What exactly is family?

We know about it of course.

But one thing that we should supposedly always keep in our minds is that famous decent quote, “everything has an end but the family doesn’t”.

Yes, now you’d say and think about the families that have been broken or are on the verge to be broken.

Yet, you wouldn’t disagree that at least one or two members of the family somehow manage to keep in contact with each other.

Because that’s how it is, the emotional attachment never goes no matter how much damage one’s family has done to one another.

And that’s because everyone in the family grew up together.

It’s like even the parents of the family grow up along with you, learning a lot of new things.

And children, of course, grow up learning to be together and so on.

Exactly why quality time with family is important in day-to-day life.

Importance of quality time

Being the interrogative self that I am, I would first ask what is quality time?

Or what is the base of quality time?

Well, if you come to think of it; many will have a clear picture of quality time which is just sitting together and talking.

As that’s how it usually is but then we ought to know that quality time just doesn’t limit to sitting and talking.

Quality time can be just when you are helping each other in the kitchen or helping each other clean.

That’s another way of quality time because there we get chances of knowing how the other one does the work.

Growth of the bond per se,

Of course, voicing your opinions in a family discussion is one too.

Unless you are in a brown Asian household and mainly you are the youngest.

Then and there come back to your zoning out because your opinion would be equal to trash if that’s the case.

The ones I mentioned.

It is what it is, you cannot deny while reading this.

Like come on, wise men have said and gone that brown Asian households will remain like that even for the rest of the centuries coming in.

Take my word.

Yes, let’s get back to the quality time part. Just got to say that it just doesn’t limit to one type or kind.

There are tons of ways to spend quality time.

For instance, peaceful driving classes with your father.

Unless he tells you that he knows everything and later bumps the car on a lamp post and ends up blaming.

Just kidding but take note, for precautionary purposes.

Ways, there are lots of ways. I repeat.

Quality time is important to learn better and grow together. Keep that in mind.

How long should we be with our family daily?

The straight answer to this, as long as you can.

Being able to spare even a few minutes from your daily life.

No matter how busy you are, I guess just ten minutes would be enough.

You know right, if you pass by a road and smile at strangers, it might make their day.

That goes kind of the same in terms of the family too, if you just ask them how their day went or was it would be a step towards knowing them more.

And of course, don’t be shy.

Like, it’s your family.

I know, I know that most of us cannot help but feel shy.

That’s why even if you ask in a funny sarcastic tone, it will be fine because they are anyway going to end up answering you.

When it comes to spending time, we get to see if everyone else is free and done with their work or not.

Because if one of them is excluded, it wouldn’t be quite a good scene.

Especially don’t exclude your moody siblings else you will end up picking out each other’s hair in a heated argument (we see that in most households).

Also, do not forcefully make someone spend quality time. I mean, force doesn’t work anywhere but on the battlefield.

So yes, spend as much and as long as you can. Neither too much nor too less. Because it’s for the betterment.

Builds the core of relations

When it comes to family, it isn’t bad to accept the fact that there are some entangled relations.

Not some actually, many entangled relations which are more difficult than a puzzle to be solved.

But the actual puzzle can wait.

The puzzle in the form of life cannot.

We should always find a way to disentangle those relations.

And that can only be done by what we have been talking about so far, “quality time”.

In a life of hustle and bustle these days, we tend to forget that we need to be there for our families too.

Yes, some might not forget but most of them do.

Some residing far across different places and cities think that just sending money would help.

But no, that’s not how it works.

You need to know that when your family needs you, they need you to be there physically.

Unless you are working under a grumpy boss.

That’s a different case there.

But know that whenever you are in need during any family crisis, you realize about having built a sense of responsibility within yourself in regards to your family.

And the family members to realize that yes, he/she has come this far in life and in growth where he/she is being able to be there for the family.

That’s just how the unbreakable core of bonds in a family is built. And once it’s built, the roots become hardened enough for anyone to even break it.

It’s all correlated.

Separate personal and professional

We always have to remember that work is always going to be work and family is going to be family.

Separating and knowing the difference between the two might bring you wiser days of life.

Because again, it is what it is.

Personal and professional lives have to be set apart.

And the person has to be good at balancing both.

Like you cannot and you should not leave work pending for a trip with family.

What you can do is finish the work first at a given scheduled time and then enjoy the breezy waves while you are in the car going on the trip.

And maybe even imagine yourself as someone in a music video as you look outside the window with your favorite song on.

Also, both the parties need to be understood to be made understood.

Family comes first

Be it in terms of remembrance casually or in prayers (atheists can ignore this part) it’s always the family members that come to our mind.

Family is that one huge chunk of our life we can never be separated from.

And why would someone possibly want to be away from one’s family? Unless he/she is a recluse.

(recluse: someone who tends to live alone away from everyone, be it, anyone).

Not wanting to be away from family is exactly why most hostellers end up being homesick whenever they go out of their hometown for higher studies.

Even the people who have jobs move out only to end up missing the whole family and being a mess at the end of the day.

That’s a reason why we should never take our family for granted.

The laughter, the giggles, those small fun arguments, or even the hefty ones, take nothing for granted.

Especially when it comes to the family because it’s where we were born, where our fate put us in (philosophical line, is it?)

(hefty: heavy).

One minute you might be with your family but inside your room doing your own thing and the other minute, you will see yourself all alone in a house or an apartment without nobody from your family beside you.

That’s where it begins, the regret of not being with them for the longest of time or not spending the time you had with them.

It begins then and there.

Reasoning to which we should take every moment we have with our family and make the best out of it.

Nobody wants to end up crying and questioning themselves about why they didn’t have enough of the homemade food or watched the daily series on tv along with the other members.

Time never waits for anyone.

Family is precious and the time we have or are given with them is more precious.

Yes, even the time when you are looking at your sibling with annoyance because they changed the channel you were watching is counted as precious too.

The time when your parents are ranting about your laziness is precious too.

That one sleepover or get-together with your cousins is precious. Because we are going to miss all of it someday or the other.

That is why family time is important.

Take even five minutes out of your daily routine to breathe and be with your family, you will feel better.

Quality time is very needed amongst a family and family members.