| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立台北護理學院 === 生死教育與輔導研究所 === 97 === The metaphorical story “five pairs of chopsticks” which contains special affection to family and filial piety in Chinese culture is the reflection of my family. Consequently, when I was twenty, the death of my father brought me a huge sorrow and inspired my journey of writing.
Through self-narrative, I looked back my life experience and the history of my family. Since I was ten or even younger, my mother suffered from Multiple Sclerosis; meanwhile, the family began to face the first challenge. Each of the family members needs to change and adjust to the new situation. Several years later, another serious challenge happened; that is, my father got cancer. Both of my parents were sick at that time, meanwhile, this family was no longer the one I was familiar.
Under the breathless pressure for couple years, my sister decided to ran away from home. My parents were very angry and upset about her behavior. Furthermore, they made a terrible decision to break off the relation with my sister. She was not allowed to come back home anymore. I was so mad at this decision, but no matter how hard I tried to recover it, it was totally useless.
After my father passed away, my mother’s decease grow worse. My brother and I were busy taking care of her. We almost burn out in sustained nursing. I was so afraid this situation might go on for a long time, and also worried about losing my faith to family value.
Fortunately, the aspect of family resilience brings hope to me and enhances the ability of my family to cope with those challenges. The family members are not only coping, but also in action. I believe in the faith, home is not only recovered, but also becoming better. By self-narrative in my journey, I recognized that I have done a lot of actions in conscious to unite and rebuild my family relationship. I was not aware of those actions which I intervened consciously, so that it took me some effort to distinguish them. Through this process, I also become much clearer of the meaning and value in those actions. This valuable record shows my affection to the family, and also the meaning of family I treasured mostly.
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