Sibling Love

Well, knowing that I have no siblings what could I talk about them?

True it’s a rather complicated topic because there are siblings that go along together well while on the other hand there are other cases where they simply hate each other. But after all whose fault is it? I can think of some factors like certain moments in life, or rather the character of the children, as in both being competitive, for example, which could cause a very competitive environment between them, leading in a feud that would possibly last for all their lives.

But then again, there’s the parents, the pillars and role-models of our youth. Sadly in their attempt to raise the perfect little images of what they believe a perfect person they tend to create a favorite out of one of their siblings, hurting the other(s) in the process. Why do phrases like “Why can’t you be a lot more like your sister?” , “Why can’t you do something with your life like your brother does?”, “We’ve never had this kind of trouble with your brother when he was your age” seem so familiar when talking about two, equally intelligent siblings, treated differently because of the difference in their characters? Why can those images not be changed in order not to hurt either of their feelings? Can our parents not realize that by deliberately hurting their kids, they are not doing anything but turning their children against themselves? And after all why would somebody treat two different persons the same way? Some questions I can’t answer, and maybe, some I don’t want to know the answer of. But then again, at least I’m allowed to wonder.