My younger sister is expecting a baby this December, a little girl, which will be the first grandchild of the family. My sister is 24 years old, which I suppose isn't too young. But it's still far too early for me to even considering being an uncle.
My age aside, I have very mixed feelings about this because my sister and I aren't particularly close. I'm supposed to be thrilled and excited and I'm sure I will be when I visit her after the birth. And then, the thrill will wear off and this girl will grow up to be a niece I never really knew.
My younger brother and I aren't particularly close either. My two siblings are fraternal twins, so naturally, they're close. But increasingly, as I get older, I feel more and more that I have less and less in common with. I'm courteous, I'm polite, but can I really have a conversation with them? Not really.
Growing up in a religiously conservative background, I suppose this distance is not much of a surprise. My mother is the liberal artist, but even she's Christian. She just has an ability to see the world through other people's eyes.
But both my brother and my sister remain fairly religious, my sister enough so that she married a youth pastor. Who she toured with when he was still playing lead guitar for a Christian band. At least he's very much a loving man.
As you can well imagine, my membership to a place like SG would only aggrivate my family. I have the decency, and maturity now, to simply avoid topics of conversation that will inevitably lead to dead-end debate and argument. The conversation would not be about finding ground for mutual understanding.
Sort of like the current events thread on SG.
Listening to: Helium, "Pirate Prude".
Feeling: Like I still need my damn raise.
Wanting: My damn raise.
Something you didn't know about me: I used to want to be a physican involved with Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres), but I hated studying too much.
My age aside, I have very mixed feelings about this because my sister and I aren't particularly close. I'm supposed to be thrilled and excited and I'm sure I will be when I visit her after the birth. And then, the thrill will wear off and this girl will grow up to be a niece I never really knew.
My younger brother and I aren't particularly close either. My two siblings are fraternal twins, so naturally, they're close. But increasingly, as I get older, I feel more and more that I have less and less in common with. I'm courteous, I'm polite, but can I really have a conversation with them? Not really.
Growing up in a religiously conservative background, I suppose this distance is not much of a surprise. My mother is the liberal artist, but even she's Christian. She just has an ability to see the world through other people's eyes.
But both my brother and my sister remain fairly religious, my sister enough so that she married a youth pastor. Who she toured with when he was still playing lead guitar for a Christian band. At least he's very much a loving man.
As you can well imagine, my membership to a place like SG would only aggrivate my family. I have the decency, and maturity now, to simply avoid topics of conversation that will inevitably lead to dead-end debate and argument. The conversation would not be about finding ground for mutual understanding.
Sort of like the current events thread on SG.
Listening to: Helium, "Pirate Prude".
Feeling: Like I still need my damn raise.
Wanting: My damn raise.
Something you didn't know about me: I used to want to be a physican involved with Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres), but I hated studying too much.
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thank you.