You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family.

I wouldn't choose any other else except for my family. If I would be asked to pick my family, I would still choose my parents and my brothers to be with me as my family. I might add some friends in my family, but I could never replace the family I have known.

Hi hvedra: I think I will keep my family just as it is even if I have to chose because, even if I don't feel completely comfortable with some of them and getting along with one of my uncles for examples has not been the best experience, I think I have learnt from my entire family and they just make me the way I am. Maybe I would add one friend to my family as a brother because I think his family is not very functional and they don't have the time for him so he has always made things by his own . I wished he could felt more comfortable with his own family. ALVARO

I would chose most of the family I have. I think if my daughter had it to do again she might have picked a couple of different dads. Hehe Would never cut off family members. We have the ones we have for a reason. I believe in Fate and Karma so have to go with what we have.

This is a clear truth. We cannot choose our family- who will be our parents and siblings. But why such a word...we must love our family. Yes, we do not have the chance to choose our family- but a family will always be a family.

You can't choose your family but you can choose to stick around them and feel unhappy or respect them all and leave/live your own life. I left as I was 15 and live longer now without them as I ever lived with them. I don't feel any sorry about that decision it was the best I ever did in my life. I did found close friends who are family to us and I think that is what counts. Family are those who are close to you, care about you. The so called blood... means nothing to me.

I wouldn't change the people in my family. Not really sure if I would add a close friend to my immediate family though. I think you have a family that doesn't treat you right, or you don't treat each other as family. If your family can't be your source of comfort, your friends will always be their for you right? It's good that I was born in a nice family, and they have raised me well. so i don't really intent to change what i have now. Have a good day :)

it is a fact of life. i have come to accept it like that. our families are what we were born into. i am glad that i was born into a nice family. but for those who were born into a not-so nice family, they were wishing to have been born in a different family. but i guess that makes life more regrettable and miserable. acceptance is key to happiness, as they say.

That point is rather true. As much as your family can get on your nerves and believe me, there are times where they can, no matter what, no matter what happens, they are your family. For better or for worse, they are going to be with you a lot of the time. Granted, there are friends that are close as family to me in some cases, perhaps even more so. Family is funny, as no matter what, you're still going to be blood. You'll still be connected. Where when friendship ends, there will be people who drift out of your life. With family on the other hand, they never truly leave. In the end, family will be always there. Through the good times, and the bad, whether to laugh with you or to annoy you beyond belief. That's just the way things are.