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Maddy Kloss

Mrs. Cramer

College Comp Pd. 3

1 October. 2021

Can Essay

“It must be nice to be an only child.” Imagine listening to that your whole life. Do you

ever wonder how it feels to hear those multiple times too, and have to act like it’s no big deal,

and it doesn’t bother you?

When, I was growing up the first couple of days of school were always so hard for me,

and I dreaded for many reasons. But the main reason I hated it was, due to the same couple of

questions the teachers would always ask. One of the main questions being, “what number of

siblings do you have?”. Which I would always end up writing a big fat zero on the paper. I

would see these kids talk about their brother, and sisters it would make me sad. At that age I just

thought it was unfair that everyone else got a sibling except me. All I wanted was for someone to

play with, I guess because of it now I have a pretty good imagination. Once I got older, I would

have classmates telling me how jealous they were that I was an only child. I do understand why

they feel like that because an only child gets all the attention. They just assume we have such a

perfect life all the time, and they have never been an only child, therefore. Though people are

only basing their thoughts off of prior assumptions. In all reality what they don’t get was how I

had to learn that I don’t always get attention, or how to share, and even work in groups. That is

something to this day I still struggle with such a stupid skill most people wouldn’t understand.

Which to a numerous amount of people it’s a skill that is easy. It is also, natural to them since
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they’ve done it at such a young age. To various people they think it’s a dumb reason but, those

are life skills that most people just delt with. People just don’t consider it any type of skill like

the way I do.

Continually I feel like in plenty of instances, and still today I feel like I can never fit in.

I will never know what it feels like to have someone that’s such close in that way. Though it’s

something that will always make me some type of sad. The biggest struggle I feel like of being

an only child is how you get treated differently from other peers. In the sense if I talk about my

home life or, ever have a struggle with my family it’s just people don’t seem to care or, tell me to

get over it. What they don’t understand was I had no one to help me through obstacles that you

want something other than a parent there for. Moreover, either I figured it out on my own or, had

to find someone else to ask. Just little tasks like that other people don’t realize were a struggle

for me.

I know I will never have the same struggles and never know how it feels to have

siblings. Though at the bare minimum, I try to be there for them and not just dust off their

problem like most people have done to me. In the end, I want to feel just as valued and respected

even when my struggles are the same. We don’t realize this though I think we have similar

struggles we just can’t see that. This is because we just see we don’t have siblings so we assume

we can’t understand. I just wish more people could see through my lens just so, they could see

how I’m not so different from them after all. I’m forever grateful for the life I have, and the

opportunities I get, but that doesn’t mean my struggles still aren’t valid.
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