Brother-Sister Relationship Special

“Even a scholar in psychology couldn't determine how one can love a person to death, yet want to kill them at the same time.”

In the roller coaster ride of life, we come across a lot of people. Some impact our brains with their charisma, some touch our hearts with their goodness and then there are ones who get on our nerves - just by breathing - and yet, we fail to understand why we love them so much that they waltz in our brains, and set up a camp in our hearts, rent-free. Yes, it’s the brother-sister bond we’re talking about.

Have you all ever wonder what is so special about the overprotective monkey, who is apparently your mom’s apple of the eye? Or why your father always is doting on the little girl you guys supposedly picked out from the trash? You think about it, and grimace about the fact that just because your parents decided to have another child, you will have to bear with the consequences a long time - the relationship between the siblings is probably the longest relationship you share with someone in your whole life.

Nevertheless, he is doing it because he knows that his sister will get up, curse him and still get him what he wants. Been there, done that, right? Well, the reason, why they do that all the time is known as the “attachment theory”.

Humans, all of us, have a tendency to feel closer to the person who makes us feel secure, thus feeling content - just by having the other in sight. The theory also goes the other way round - the elder sibling also starts to develop an inertia towards the younger one. As we grow up, the actions come more out of our subconscious part of the brain, stating that the affection has penetrated itself to the core of our hearts.

This is the reason that brothers and sisters have their own little room in each other’s heart. Obviously, we let them move in because of a little favour they did to us - or because the smaller one was looking really cute while sleeping. By the time we know what is happening, it is too late, or you are too involved.

Another factor which makes this relationship stronger than all the others, is that humans are resistant to change. As we all know, this one is not changing forever! One carries the images of other in their heart forever and ever. Mind you, these hearts come with an expandable storage. Hence, they have all the information to make you feel anything they want to - name it, they have it. Such is the relationship - that they can shower you with love, make you cry, tickle your laughter bone, or even blackmail you from 0 to 100, in about 5 seconds - faster than a Ferrari.Then, you start growing older and like every other relationship, the honeymoon phase is over. There is time for a reality check - the sister is no longer cute, and brother is no longer the superhero. The only role your parents play in your life is that of a referee, as your living room becomes a splitting image of a WWE ring. We all are way too familiar with the phase of the relationship, where we fought like animals.

Then comes the KitKat break of your relationship, where your interests are as distinct as two magnetic poles. Some of the age-old battles are here revived - Pink vs Blue, Unicorn vs Harry Potter, and ESPN vs Disney.