Lesson 4: Love Those You View As Family

The fourth lesson is "love those you view as family". From One Piece, you learn that your family is a important thing to cherish. That you should hold those bonds close to your heart.

In One Piece, you see many times the bonds of family appear. For example, even though she, her mother, and sister are not related by blood, she still loves them as if they were. The same goes for Luffy and his brother, Ace. Even though Ace hated Luffy when they first met, they eventually became best friends and grew to have a great bond between them. They became blood brothers and truly cherished and protected each other. And there are many other examples of such bonds being formed throughout the series.

Ace, Sabo, and Luffy: blood brothers

Another example would be the Whitebeard pirates. They treat each other like family. The crew is made up of 1 father, being Whitebeard himself and all his sons, which is everyone else in the crew. They are also one of the strongest and most deadly groups on the seas… or at least they were. (May Edward Newgate "Whitebeard" rest in peace.) This is a perfect example of how to view who's your family. They are made up of many different people who weren't related at all before joining. For example, Luffy's older brother Ace was apart of this crew. Even though his father was once the rival of Whitebeard, Whitebeard welcomed him in with open arms and without bias. As Whitebeard has said, "It's wrong to resent a child for the sins of his father."

Whitebeard Pirates

I hope that you learned to see it slightly in a different point of view of who your family is. You don't have to be related to be siblings or to view them as a father. Your family can be anyone you're close to and care about deeply. Everyone deserves to have a family that they love and loves them back.

As you can guess, this fits into my project theme, because it shows you a different way to view who's apart of your life. Family is an important part of life that everyone longs for. Some have all the family they need and some long for a fulfilling family. I hope those who are looking of family might look more deeply at the ties they have around them and learn to cherish them as their family.