On August 10th, 2016, my dad and step-mom welcomed a beautiful baby girl into the world. Her name is Piper Saylor, and she is currently five months old. I've always heard about big age gaps between siblings, but I never really thought further into them other than the age difference. I never thought about things that happen with the age gap, how people react or even how it affects the siblings. However, with Piper being born such a short time ago, this means that the age gap between us is– 21 years. Here's a few things that some siblings–including myself– who have a huge age gap with their siblings, experience.

1. You've already done the math of how old you'll be when they graduate high school

Honestly the thought of this makes me cringe and feel super old.

2. All of your friends love your sibling

Your sibling is like the shiny new toy that your friends want to play with all at once. But you don't mind, because it's fun to show them off.

3. Social Media gold

Putting the puppy dog filter on a baby's face??? 'Nough said.

4. You're constantly mistaken as their parent

"Yes she's cute, no she's not mine. I'm not the parent, I'm the sister."

5. Stress Relief

Whenever homework and finals starts to get heavy, it's nice to know that you can always visit home and see the always happy face of your younger sibling.

6. Throwback to your childhood

Playing with them brings you back to a time when there were no worries in a world– aka the happy days.

7. Practice for future

Even if starting a family is way, way, way down the road, having a much younger sibling comes in handy whenever it comes to knowing how to feed, change diapers and take care of them.

8. Being a role-model

Even if (at the moment) they're too young to know it, you'll be one of their role-models in life, and that's honestly the best feeling in the world.

9. Knowing that no matter how old you both get, you'll always be there.