RasyaOnce Upon A Time, Malaysia
Sometimes being the eldest is not so bad.
I used to hate being the eldest. Scratch hate. I detest it.
Being the eldest comes with great responsibility. My parents would expect just the best from me nothing less than an A when it comes to school grades and frankly speaking, those expectations wore me down sometimes.
Well, not anymore.
Growing up and maturing a little bit I can see that being the eldest helped me shaped my personality and of course, the advantages of being the firstborn is not something that I could deny.
1. PARENTS OUT, BIG SISTER IN
If my parents were outside (working etc), the one who rules the house is me. For start, the remote control is in my hand, the privilege of sitting in the comfiest and strategic couch near the tv is mine and of course,
basically everything.
2. ORDERING THE YOUNGER ONES AROUND
I couldn’t imagine the situation where I’d have a brother/sister ordering me around to do chores. Just thinking about it makes my skin crawl.
3. THE WINNER IS ALWAYS MOI
Obviously.
4. HAND-ME-DOWN WHAT?
I could think of many more advantages but I’m so lazy right now so maybe you guys could add some.
Here my mandatory pleading puppy eyes emoji, I mean gif.
Rasya
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i’m the youngest one! hahahaha. semua kedudukan adik beradik ada baik buruknya. cth macam anak bongsu. yaaa, when our parents getting old. they would find the youngest okay. because the eldest will busy with him/her kids ?
hahaha. it’s the age gap
Well yeah, being the eldest have many perks, I can agree (seeing how my older sister gets many things first). But getting that also means carrying a huge responsibility to achieve what our parents expected of course. I’m the middle child and I feel like I used to suffer the middle-child syndrome lol (have you heard about it?). As much as I’m jealous with my older sister being showered with attention, and my youngest sister getting almost everything she wanted, I don’t think I’d change my spot now. I learned a lot being the middle child 🙂
I knew about the middle child syndrome. I think my sister is now suffering from the same syndrome. I think in your case because your siblings are all girls the MCS affects you more since being the same gender and all. Like my second brother don’t have MCS because he was a he.