How have my brothers shaped who I am today? “Please stop screaming, both of you!” my mother screams as she desperately tries to pull my twin brothers away from each other. As I sit helplessly, scared and confused, I watch my brothers physically beat each other. Between my mother's screams and my brother's screams of pure rage I realize something. This is not the future I want for myself. With a 6 year age difference I find myself to be the most mature of the three of us. I often wonder how I came out so normal and they came out so hateful and cynical. After pondering this thought for years, I finally found my answer. I came across a study by researchers who concluded that siblings actually unconsciously strive to be different from each other. I feel like siblings want to be different from each other because we want to stand out in our parents' eyes and be seen as the "golden child". My brothers callously teased me as a bootlicker and made me feel inferior to them just because I didn't follow their careless actions. That's because I saw how infuriated it made my moth...
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