elcarmean in Washington, D.C. is doing 34 things including…

Be an awesome big brother

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elcarmean has written 2 entries about this goal

Little sister

I have two little sisters, one 10 and one 13. I’ve always been closer to the younger one, partly because the older one is very difficult. I’ve been trying to find something that we can bond over, as I have a lot of things with the younger one and nothing with the older. The other day she asked me to put up our dart board, so combining this with my “Get better at darts” goal (where I also posted what follows). I spent a few hours figuring out how to hang our board outside, how to pad fence behind it and the wall below it so that the darts that miss (she more than occasionally misses the board) don’t get damaged, moving a giant umbrella to shade us from the Spanish sun while playing, etc. And I did it all with her and including her so that she was part of everything and felt like she was doing it too. It was fun, but better yet is that she seems happy and seems to be getting less stressed as we play, which is great because she can be a little (read is almost always enormously, incredibly, ridiculously) tough to deal with. We both aren’t very good, but we’re getting better and I think it helps us bond and helps her deal with things by distracting her from her difficulties.
Who would have thought darts could be so meaningful?



Younger siblings

I have a brother who is a little more than three years younger than me, but he’s quite independant and old enough to not really need a role model. So, this goal is really about my sisters who are 9 and 12 years younger than I am. Now that I’m close to graduating from college I think I should be the cool older brother who takes them on trips and lets them get away from our parents for a while. Since they’re so much younger, I have a few years to do this, but I think it could be a really good relationship to have with them. I have a couple of female friends with much older brothers and some of them really look up to their brothers and really like having a much older brother, so that’s what I want to be.



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