How can we be so different.

Little Sisters - Three sisters
United States
May 31, 2008 6:28pm CST
I am one of three girls. My two sisters live in Oklahoma and I'm living in Texas. We all grew up together in the same house, went to the same schools and raised by the same parents. We are pretty close in age, I'm 26, Jess just turned 25 and Jackie is 23. We are all completely different people, and not just with the little things but with the big things as well. Jess like I said is 25, not married, she already has 3 kids and one more on the way. She smokes, has pretty loose morals and does not care for her children in a way I'd consider motherly. She dropped out of school during her first pregnancy, she was in her Senior year at the time. Jackie just had her first child, not married either. She also dropped out of school in her senior year, she only had a couple months left. But she turned 18 first and just quit. She's dating a guy who has a criminal record and from what I can tell he's not getting any better. So both my sisters had children before I did. I just had a baby, and I have a seven year old stepson. I've been married almost 2 years and until the baby was born I was a Manager for a staffing agency for years. I don't think any of us are wrong or right in the way we live our lives but, how are we SO different. How did we all make completely opposite choices being that we were all exposed to the same things?
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@cjgrooms (4456)
• United States
1 Jun 08
You are different because you made different choices to began with. If one of your sisters had chosen to get an education instead of live for fun she would have probably turned out more like you. I am totally different from my sisters (2) personality, looks ,the way we view the world and see things are completely different.
• United States
1 Jun 08
I guess it's just hard for me to understand... They both complain a lot about how hard their lives are and I think to myself well...if only you had finished school or waited to have kids it would have been so much easier.
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@cjgrooms (4456)
• United States
1 Jun 08
Well it is kinda too late to put off having children now. But they could get an education and have a better life.
• United States
1 Jun 08
Yeah I have been speaking to my youngest sister Jackie about that recently and I think she really wants to go back to school. She will have to get her GED fist and then figure out what she wants to do after that, but she seems really interested.
@suz1000 (159)
1 Jun 08
We just are I have two sisters, one is my twin and we couldnt be more different, she rained as a nursery nurse and is now settled in a good relationship with two kids. My youngest sister is also a trained nursery nurse and would love kids one day probably soon. Me............well am a professional dog groomer dont have any plans on children any time soon either. We are just different we like different things and made different choices. Nothing wrong in that.
• United States
1 Jun 08
Absolutely there is nothing wrong with it. Thanks for sharing. By the way, do you love your job? I think I would really enjoy dog grooming. I have a Great Dane so I am use to handling big dogs, it's the small ones that scare me ahahaha jk.
@acbllr (43)
• Philippines
1 Jun 08
No two things are alike.You are an individual. You have different set of friends or people you hang out with which sometimes influenced you to become the kind of person you are now. There is also the personal thoughts and emotions on handling the situations, and maybe you're sisters have a different way of handling things which in their mind they thought is right or that the person they talked to sometimes gave them the idea that it is just okey. Like me, im also one of the three girls. We were raised on same values but we still have our differences especially on dealing with our problems. We tend to clash on ideas and answers. The choice we make are different but we all have common values.
• United States
1 Jun 08
My sisters and I do not have common values or morals. But individuality is a good thing I suppose.
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@smtrego (181)
• United States
1 Jun 08
Even though you all grew up in the same house, just like most siblings look different they act and react differently toward things as well. It also has to do with friends who may have influenced you all differently when you were growing up. When I got my first real boyfriend, who lived in the neighborhood, I hung out with him and his friends all the time and they had a bad influence on me. I always thought I could bring him up to my level, but instead, I let him drag me down to his level. I became someone completely different from what I always thought I would be. I eventually realized, after a few years, that was not who I really was and broke it off with him. I do thank God all the time for my husband because I know what I could have ended up with. My sister is 13 months younger than me and we grew up in the same house, exposed to the same things. I used to be so mousy; she would speak on my behalf if something bothered me. At this point in my life, I am more mouthy than mousy. If I disagree with something or someone, for the most part, I will not hesitate to tell them. This is just who I have become over the years. I think having children (now 11 and 13 years old) forced me to come out of my shell. I felt it was my responsibility to be their advocate. Of course since then, 13 years ago, I don't think I have stopped telling people what I think. I hope this helps you.
• United States
1 Jun 08
Yes smtrego, it does help. It makes sense that the friends we surround ourselves with will most definately have a big impact on our lives. And when I look back my sisters did have a very different set of friends than I did. I suppose all the matters is that they are happy and healthy, and for the most part they are.