Friday, September 5, 2008
Assignment 2
I have a sister who is eighteen years old and she is a freshman in college. When we were little our mom would dress us up in the same outfits and we looked like twins, but now that we are older we are very different in personalities and clothing choices. Also when we were little she was more of a tomboy while I was a girly girl. As we got older things changed and so did the both of us. She became more inactive in any activity, while I was always on the go for softball and school. People have always told me that I am more book smart and she is more street smarts, I don't know the reason why. When it comes to school I have to work very hard to maintain good grades, where she does not have to work as hard. In high school I was known for my softball talents and good grades, but when my sister got to high school she was always known as little saxy due to me, and know that she is in college is still known as little saxy. As for I appearances some people say we look alike and others say we look nothing alike, also they say I look more like my dad and my sister looks more like my mom. I think that the reason why we are so different is because our parents treated us differently when we were little, I was always the center of attention when I was playing softball, where my sister was not and she just came to my games for support. I think that she was left out when my parents gave me all the attention teaching me new things first and she got the second end of the string. But things are different now that I am away from and now she getting the attention which I think is good.
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I have a twin and understand the competition for attention thing. Because of my twin brothers epilepsy he often got more attention than I did. There were birthdays and christmas's when my mom would say "We couldn't afford to get both of you something this year so we got Charlie something we'll get you something later". And later never seemed to arrive. I eventually began to resent him for it and spent a 12 year period with no communication with him or any of my family members. I have since realized that he is not to blame for any of those things, and we have become really close.
I don't like when parents dress up siblings to look alike. I think it stifles each individual's need for individuality from the very beginging.
I know how that goes with the playing softball and the sibling coming along and watching. My brothers have watched so many of my games over the year
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