Your family is much more important, then friends. I am not saying that you will neglect your friends but family comes first more than anything. Family is a 100% importance and friends are 80% importance. Friends come and go. Family is your blood and will never leave you. Even you and your brothers and sisters fight when you were kids, many years from now he or she will still help you even if its financially (as long as he/she has money). "a brothers love is a brothers love" taken from movie gone in 60 seconds.
I totally agree that some people prefer friends over family because they feel that the bond between them and their families are not too strong. Family is forever yeah but it has to play a significant role not just be there and you learn a lot from friendships because they are experiences when you deal with your family you always deal with the same people and this is not advantageous
No matter what society, or anyone within it tells you, there is no difference. That is just a matter of tradition; the way we are told things "are" when we are brought up. Most people are like sheep, and never question these sort of fundamental beliefs, they just parrot them on, and will defend them to the bitter end. This particular belief serves the system well in neatly dividing us up and ensuring we don't work together toward a common good.
Your family are NOT defined by legal agreements nor by blood. They are who cares for you, who are there for you when you need them, plain and simple. Anyone who claims that some legal, or blood relationship guarantees they will "be there for you always" is being unbelievably naive. What about abusive family members? Or orphans who find support in friends? What about people who lose their "family", are they doomed to be betrayed as well?
There are just too many counter examples in this extremely difficult world to have such a ridiculously narrow minded definition of family. We really should all treat each other as brothers and sisters - maybe one day we'll get there - but not without people first using their brains and challenging convention.
No friends are not more important. Friends come and go but family is there for you always. I know this from experience. Not saying you are doing this but just an idea never chose friends over family. Friends are not always going to be there for you even if they say they will.
Many times people may believe that friends are really more important than family and there are occasions where friends have given support more than family members, but never forget your roots and where you came from and the links which bind you family is of uttermost importance
It all depends on if you have a close knit family. Some people feel more for their friends then their own family, because their is no love within their own blood family.
