Assignment 22 - Jimmy Chen

 I have a single sibling in my family, my older sister. Although that is very common, the thing that isn’t uncommon is just how much older she is than me. She is 29 years old, which means she is 12 years older than me. This age difference creates a very interesting dynamic between me and my older sister. Oftentimes I forget I have an older sister, my life basically functions as me being an only child. My sister is only present throughout short periods of time, usually Christmas or thanksgiving and the early part of my childhood, she left for college when I was 6. She graduated highschool in 2010! The presence of my sister hasn’t affected me too much except for when I was really little. She liked to pull little pranks on me, I ended up watching many many horror movies with her, namely the most vivid in my memory are It and The Ring. The ring really traumatized me, I was terrified of sewer drains, the TV’s, and the Telephone. I used to unplug the TV and the telephone every night before I went to bed so the scary girl with the black hair wouldn’t come eat me. This eventually blossomed into a love for horror movies and doing weird things like going to haunted mansions. I am thoroughly entertained by tours in large cities where they take you to all the places gruesome murders happened. It’s also the reason I like doing things like skiing. roller coasters, and high places. I think it has probably helped me make friends like with skiing, where like minded people enjoy the sensation of fear and thrill, a stomach dropping sensation of terror and free fall.