My family is one loud boisterous jungle party. Everyday one of your siblings, or you yourself, may get into trouble, which can lead to one of two outcomes: your siblings getting yelled by your parents or you getting yelled at by your parents. However, if you did commit the mistake, there is a one-in-however-many-siblings-you-have chance of being held accountable for the supposedly “heinous crime” of not cleaning the living room (as an example.) Since I have two siblings, I have a ⅓ chance of getting the blame placed on me. There, of course, is always that percentage fluctuation based on the type of mistake committed based on your order of birth. When it comes to matters of responsibility, the oldest child usually gets the most amount of the blame, while the youngest usually gets most of the blame regarding matters of cleaning up the food from the kitchen table. In a sense, having siblings can be terrible. However, you may be wondering, why bother having siblings when there are such terrible cons? Well, I intend to explain otherwise, because having siblings is not just about getting yelled at, which is actually just one facet of having them.

The benefits to living with siblings far outweigh the cons. Having siblings means having shoulders to cry upon other that those of your parents. Because if you were mad at your parents, it really is best not to go complaining to them again and get yelled at once more; it just adds salt to the wound. Having siblings means you have somebody to help you create wonderful pranks on your parents. I mean, what was April Fool’s Day intended for? Having siblings means you can always have a second opinion in clothing, school projects, essays, etc.. Even my brother helps me to never dress up too wacky to school by making sure I can never find my neon pink Crocs. Having sibling also means less of a mess to clean up after. Have you ever realized that the proportion of the mess that you make to the time it takes to clean up the mess reduces significantly as the number of siblings increases?

With siblings, your life is predetermined to be a huge party with constantly-flowing food. We party on beaches with a lunch of salad, chips, soda and grapes (not ideal, but perfect for maintaining energy as you swim in the ocean). Every day is filled with memorable experiences, which include a lot of partying with cookies 'n’ cream or coffee ice cream and watching Netflix (a.k.a binge watching Cupcake Wars with my brother). We also have exercise parties where we go exercise to loud music in our basement while our sister pretends to be an exercise instructor. We even have music parties where we jam to our favorite music (all different kinds of genres) at the same time and claim to have found the best song ever. Basically, our whole life is filled with parties, because with the amount of people we have in our family, it is impossible to call it anything but a party.

Siblings ensure that you always have somebody to rely on. Siblings can make you laugh when you are sad, carry out the tradition of eating coffee ice cream while watching Harry Potter movies and get on a roller coaster with you, even when you are afraid of heights. Life with my siblings is always filled with action and adventure; I am eternally grateful for my them, because without their support and the fun times that we share, life would not be as memorable.