I'm another only child, no brothers or sisters.
I can see no positives at all in having no brothers and sisters. First of all I had no male peers around me, all my cousins are female except for one male who's gay.
I used to feel like a bit of a freak because all my cousins would know all the dance moves and lyrics to the spice girls and when they would sing and dance I'd just be stood there thinking what the fuck is this shit.
I think it must help a person be sociable and less socially anxious if they have people around them constantly and I think I had way too much thinking time on my hands when I was bored which made me depressed.
Also I used to fucking envy my friend so much who had a brother for so many reasons, his brother had cool friends who would automatically become his friends by default, his brothers were both older geeks who had jobs and money and so his household was like a computer console paradise, he had the fastest PC the playstation as soon as it came out and the N64, ontop of this he would be able to play multiplayer games all the time with his brother and his brothers friends.
He would just take it all for granted though, I remember pretty much jumping out of my skin with excitement about the idea of playing Mario party with him his brother and his brothers friend and eating take away food, there was actually one time when I got back home from his house that I just burst into tears because I thought fuck, back to being bored again.
I know having your own space is good and it's not all sunshine and rainbows having a brother or sister but fucking hell I remember a lot of boredom from my Childhood, mainly at night time which is why when I got introduced to chatrooms and the internet it was like a fish being introduced to water, I only had a dial up connection though and limited time allowance. I suppose now kids have Call of Duty online and broadband these days so maybe being an only child isn't as bad.
I can see no positives at all in having no brothers and sisters. First of all I had no male peers around me, all my cousins are female except for one male who's gay.
I used to feel like a bit of a freak because all my cousins would know all the dance moves and lyrics to the spice girls and when they would sing and dance I'd just be stood there thinking what the fuck is this shit.
I think it must help a person be sociable and less socially anxious if they have people around them constantly and I think I had way too much thinking time on my hands when I was bored which made me depressed.
Also I used to fucking envy my friend so much who had a brother for so many reasons, his brother had cool friends who would automatically become his friends by default, his brothers were both older geeks who had jobs and money and so his household was like a computer console paradise, he had the fastest PC the playstation as soon as it came out and the N64, ontop of this he would be able to play multiplayer games all the time with his brother and his brothers friends.
He would just take it all for granted though, I remember pretty much jumping out of my skin with excitement about the idea of playing Mario party with him his brother and his brothers friend and eating take away food, there was actually one time when I got back home from his house that I just burst into tears because I thought fuck, back to being bored again.
I know having your own space is good and it's not all sunshine and rainbows having a brother or sister but fucking hell I remember a lot of boredom from my Childhood, mainly at night time which is why when I got introduced to chatrooms and the internet it was like a fish being introduced to water, I only had a dial up connection though and limited time allowance. I suppose now kids have Call of Duty online and broadband these days so maybe being an only child isn't as bad.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
