 JaclynM (Guest)
I am an only child. I can relate to just about everything that has been said above. I have always found it difficult to accept anything less than perfect which may cause people to think I am self absorbed, but I am not. I care about the welfare of others the same, and sometimes more than the welfare of myself, I just completely immerse myself in getting everything right I forget some of the little things along the way. As I am now in my thirties I feel more fulfilled as my family life is weighed perfectly in my opinion; three kids and a successful husband that keeps me feeling competitive and ambitious. I strive for equality and that pushes me to the limit at times when I meet others that I have to work with that do not wish equality or strive for excellence. My life has seemed to many as a white picket fence but to me I always have an internal hurricane in the works of how I can do better and what I can do to be better. I believe that a lot of this was because I was the only child, around adults only growing up, adult sense of humor, older friends etc... and a sense of needing to catch up to the "adults" in my life and now surpassing them. I am happy that I was an only child, but also feel that I may be a more relaxed person if I had not been. I would not raise an only child myself since I think it takes a certain aspect of life away that I will never get to experience unless through my husband and his family i.e. my sister and brother in-laws, but to each their own.
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