![]() However, I think it was around the time that my sister told me it was no longer cool to wear shirts with cats on them that I began to disregard her advice. As we grow older, we’re able to pick and choose from the. I learned that Ryan Atwood from The O.C was very cool, and wearing Big Bad Beetleborgs memorabilia was so not. I quickly learned from my sister that tie-dye was cool and flip flops were not. Although my sister and I listen to completely different things now that we’re older, I can never thank her enough for introducing me to the guiltiest of pleasures in the form of delicious pop music. This is crucial for the artistic development of any fully formed human. An older sibling is often the one that exposes their younger sibling to music for the first time. I distinctly remember listening to Hanson and S-Club Seven while driving to and from school. ![]() Of course, by that time our tolerance has grown to withstand an ass kicking from a UFC champion. Suddenly we’re seen less as a punching bag and more as a human. It’s the younger brother’s jab to learn to bear with the pain and wait…until the day we wake up realize we’ve grown taller than our sisters. Older sisters are notorious by nature for putting their little brothers through the wringer. If I had a dollar for every time my sister would dig her nails into my arms until they bled, I would be making it rain on everyone who reads this website. Besides teaching me from an early age that, at times, the world can be a huge fucking disappointment, my sister taught me a few others things that I could only have gained from an older sister’s warped sense of sibling wisdom. She had written the note herself, she had wanted to see my excitement only to then watch me be crushed. When I told my parents where I was off to, my sister crept behind me and doubled over in laugher. As soon as I was able to resist the urge to piss myself, I began to throw my sketchers and Yu-Gi-Oh! cards into my navy blue Jan-Sport and bound down the stairs. Inside the envelop was a letter from “Hogwarts” that stated I was to begin my training as a young wizard. ![]() On my eleventh birthday, my older sister burst into my room holding a handwritten letter. ![]()
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