I am an only child and I think I'm pretty balanced. That said, with the kind of childhood I had, I wish there had been a brother/sister present for mutual support. Aslo I think that I missed out on learning about things from siblings like many people tell me they have. Of course not all siblings get on. I don't think I'm particularly selfish or stubborn, but I am firm when I'm sure of something - though I'm always ready to listen to others' opinions and take them into account. I have always been grateful for what I have and I know the value of what I have. I think in the end it has to do with personality and the values taught to you by your parents. I am not a very social person but I do alright. I'd like to think that if my parents had socialized me more with, at least, other kids, I'd be better in that area.
So if I had kids, I think I'd like more than one. But that's just me. I think at the end of the day, what's important is how you're brought up and what your personality is, more than if you had a sibling or not.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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