is an only child lonely?

"If I ever get a younger sibling, I'm going to throw him down the balcony of our 6th floor flat!!!" the 4-year old threatened her shocked parents because she was scared of anyone else stealing her spotlight....and of her parents not loving her as much anymore.

yes, you guessed it! That kid was me. I had heard somewhere that if you got a younger sibling he/she would take away all your toys and clothes and your parents would love him/her more!(very thoughtful,I know :P) and that was my very first experience of jealousy,as far as I remember.

I never really regretted being an only kid....I loved all the attention I got. Back then if you had asked me if I ever felt lonely, I would've denied it as vehemently as Ahmadinejad denies that the Holocaust ever happened! :P But sometimes, I wonder what it would've been like to have a brother....someone whom I could've talked to, someone who would understand me(ok,maybe not..he probably would've loved to annoy me), someone I could count on anytime and if I got really angry, someone I could've thrown down the balcony! lol

I dont know why I felt like this suddenly today...maybe because its Raksha Bandhan? possibly! All of us only kids have tried to fill out this gap in our lives through our friends but its not nearly the same. I tried it too...try to get a Rakhi on guy friend and watch him run away as if the stupid little Rakhi thread is a hangman's noose that he is going to be strangled to death with! Not that it bothers me, not anymore anyway. I understand it must be weird...so I stopped doing that a while back.

anyway, its not that I regret being alone but maybe things could've been diiferent. Maybe better,maybe worse? who knows...grass is always greeener on the other side, as they say. We'll never know!

oh well,I guess I'll end my rant here. And I'll try to be more consistent with my blog from now on....its been pretty dead so far! so until next time! Auf Weidersehen and Happy Raksha Bandhan everyone! :D