I found chapter six to be the most enjoyable chapter of the two. I found the topics to be really interesting given that everyone has some sort of relationship with another person. It talked about relationships with siblings, grandparents, parents, and spouses. I found everything it talked about to be very true and could relate my life to the book in many different way.
The book mentioned that “siblings grow closer to each other as they grow older”(155). This is so true to what has happened between me and my sister. My younger sister, Faith, is five years younger than me. Growing up we played together but never shared secrets or had a tight bond. Instead we fought like little kids do and constantly nagged on one another. This kind of relationship began to strengthen with time. When I went to high school, my sister found that I was cool because I could drive and had cool friends. Now that I am in college that bond has become more of a best friend role. She calls me with her problems and I am there for her. We are now closer than ever and I could not imagine it any other way. This chapter also talked about how with each generation that has kids, they are having less than what their parents had. This is something that I have witnessed in my family as well as in others. But with that going down, life expectancy is going up. So instead of seeing two to three generation families, we are now seeing four to five. This is great because it is allowing the younger generations to look at the older ones and learn from them.
Hillier, S. & Barrow, G. (2011) Aging, the individual, and society. (9th ed. pp 3-28). California: WADSWORTH.
It's silly how you can think your sister is your worst enemy one second and then your best friend the next. My sister is only 15 months younger than me, and I saw our relationship the same way you did with your little sister. She was just annoying and always wanted to tag along with me and my friends. Now, I love for her to come visit me at college and talk to me about boys. It's a treat to get to see her since we are both in college and we don't get to very often.
ReplyDeleteYes it is true that as the generations go on people are having less kids. I can personally say that will probably be true for myself. As of right now I do not plan to have any children. However, if one day I did decide to have kids, I know I would have two because of the bond I share with my sister. My sister says she wants to have lots of kids so I think I'll have my fill of kids through her.
I agree. I have a twin brother and when we were in school, you would think that we would have gotten along being that we had all of the same friends and always ran around together. However, my brother didnt like that we always were together and eventually got tired of it and moved to live with my dad in another town. Now that we are older we are more like twin, we know what each other is doing thinking, we are very close. When we were younger we fought ALL THE TIME, EVERYTHING was a competition.
ReplyDeleteNow that generations are living long I also agree that there is a lot to be learned from them. If younger people would quit thinking that they are old and crazy and just listen, you might find that they are wise. They have been through all this before. It's kind of like what mom used to tell me growing up (which annoyed me), " There is nothing you can say or do that I haven't already thought of or done". This was so true I could not get away with anything, she was always one step ahead.