It's extremely difficult and extremely easy having a sister all at the same time. She's always there when you need her, but sometimes she's there when you just want to be alone and she doesn't get the hint.

My sister is the biggest pain I have ever encountered. She is hard headed and rather opinionated at times when no one has asked her to verbalize what exactly that opinion is. This causes us to bump heads quite frequently. I want things done one way and she thinks it should be done another. Even though it takes an hour or so for the bickering to pass over, we ultimately come to the realization that two heads are better than one and we work out something together. We're a team.

As much as I wish I could move away from her, (somewhere like, say, Nova Scotia), I know she'd either follow me out there or I'd call her begging to move in beside me. I can't do life without this annoyingly little pestilence in my ear telling me, "That's my shirt you're wearing," because let's be quite honest: two closets are better than one even if you don't have full permission to wear any of it.

Sisters are wise and always overprotective, no matter who is the oldest or youngest. I confide in my sister things that no one else knows about and she gives the unbiased, truthful, kind of advice that you don't want to hear but absolutely need kind of advice. She can be abrupt with what she says, possibly causing WWIII to erupt in your shared bedroom at your mom's house, but she means it in the most loving way possible.

Cherish your sisters and the next time you argue, take a minute to think that you were given a free pass at a best friend so either really get her with the dirt you have on her from 9th grade or just let the issue pass over. She'll be there for you when no one else will be and for that, I am forever thankful for my sister. As much of a handful she may be.