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  • Essay / How do my siblings shape who I am today? - 700

    How have my siblings shaped who I am today? “Please stop shouting, you two!” » my mother screams as she desperately tries to separate my twin brothers from each other. As I sit helpless, scared and confused, I watch my brothers physically fight. Between my mother's screams and my brother's screams of pure anger, I realize one thing. This is not the future I want for myself. With an age difference of 6 years, I find myself to be the most mature of the three of us. I often wonder how I could seem so normal, and how they became so hateful and cynical. After years of thinking, I finally found my answer. I came across a study by researchers that concluded that siblings unconsciously strive to be different from each other. I think siblings want to be different from each other because we want to stand out to our parents and be seen as the "golden child." My brothers teased me insensitively, calling me worthless and making me feel inferior to them simply because I didn't follow their reckless actions. It's because I saw how angry it made my butterfly...