Family?

Dictionary.com gives a whooping 20 definitions to the word "family", of which 15 are for the noun meaning. A close inspection of the list gives a realization that this word has no special meaning at all. It can give rise to various meanings, some seem weird when you examine them side by side. It can simply refer to the "basic social unit", or can refer to both "group of persons closely related by blood" and "group of people who are generally not blood relations", or refer to a variety of things, like "people", "products", or even "mathematical solutions and functions".

With this broad variety of definitions for the word "family", I would pretty much like to conclude that the word is insignificant, though I can foresee that this view would likely be attacked on many fronts from many people should it be released or told to others. Well, different people prioritize different things in their lives. Stuff deemed important by one may be deemed useless by another.

Been watching "Family Outing" these couple of weeks. It's mainly about a group of celebrities forming a family and they went to different parts of Korea and helped to take care of old couples' houses for 2 days 1 night while the old couples went for a short leisure trip. When they first started they were not familiar with each other, thus they were pretty much quite awkward as a family. Yet the episode I watched today was about 2 members filming their last episode with the family after a year of filming together and the atmosphere was truly saddening. Gone were the awkwardness and unfamiliarity, and in were the reluctant bidding goodbyes by the remaining members and the 2 apologetic members who felt sorry that they had to leave the show early.

This makes us (maybe just me) wonder why a group of strangers can develop such feelings for each other after just meeting for 25 times (they filmed 1 time every 2 weeks), and yet there are so many dysfunctional families in society despite living together for so long. Is it because there exist sense of superiority in real families that make some problematic? Parents feeling 'superior' than their children that they do not take in their opinions and explanations? Husband feeling 'superior' than the wife simply because he's the man? With sense of superiority comes feelings of oppression. And so those oppressed start hiding stuff, doing stuff secretly, lamenting about their sad lives etc?

Self-created psychology theory: People enjoy watching shows containing elements that do not exist in their real lives. Examples include watching comedy to get feelings of happiness not available in real lives, watching thrillers and horror to spice up one's dull life, or watching love stories while hoping of achieving similar love dramas in real lives.

School starts in 1 week's time. Current view: Just let it start please.