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Originally Posted by Vampyre
My sister recently passed her driving test. My sister recently bought a car. My sister recently turned eighteen. My sister recently bought a house. My sister recently started getting on my nerves.
It's ENDLESS! All everybody ever talks about these days is my sister. Her house, her car, her boyfriend. My Mum keeps calling me Charlotte, which is my sister's name, and I just sit there "Heather." "See you later Charlotte!" "HEATHER!" I never see my parents anymore either, because their always up the road at my sister's house doing something, painting the walls or fixing mirrors to the walls. Then they ask me if I'm excited! No I am bloody not!
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I understand how you feel, Vampyre. When I was your age (yeesh, do I feel old saying that), I felt as though the world always saw me as inferior to my older brother. He was at a point in his life in which he was achieving things...passing exams, winning awards and the like, whilst all I seemed capable of doing was making a mess of things. I was convinced that he was my parents' preferred kid, out of the two of us (matters certainly weren't helped by the fact that I presently had a teacher who actually taught us that parents with multiple children invariably like one child better than the others...I don't know why I listened to her with hindsight), and that I was somehow the black sheep of the family. It's hard watching an older sibling go through all the standard rites of passage before you, and having to deal with the sinking feeling that you'll never be able to live up to the expectations they've set. I know it sounds trite, but hang in there and your time will eventually come. Nowadays, I have a very close relationship with my parents, and there seems to be much more of a distance between them and my brother, now that he's moved away and is determined to set up his own life.
Also, once you've finished school and move closer toward entering the real-world, you'll see that there are many different options available to you from then on, and you'll no longer feel that it's a matter of having to follow in your sibling's footsteps. Because you're a totally different person altogether. The age distance between my brother and I isn't nearly as great as you might think, considering our present situations - he's moved away from home, is engaged and currently half-way through the lengthy process of training to be an accountant, whilst I'm still a University student with no long-term job or driving lisence living with my parents outside of term-time - but we've just chosen to take our lives at different paces and in different directions. Being in the top set of everything, Vampyre, I'm sure you'll find a wealth of fresh options available to you in the future. Stuff which your sister never even considered.