#although she'd probably try to haggle it up to 2+ cornchips if she could

[eats-the-stars]

in my opinion, the bond with the best potential to be the strongest and longest lasting has to be sibling bonds. like, with parents and children there are gaps in generation, obligations, expectations. with friends, you have to find them and put in effort and maintain it, and there’s generally no hard feelings if you move away and lose contact, and if they get married or so on, it’s often expected that they might prioritize their new family over old friends. with someone you date, there’s always potential to break up, with a spouse, there can be cheating, divorce. and, again, to date or marry you have to track them down and put in effort just to build the relationship on both ends.

but siblings...you’ve got no say. you’re just born and they’re born into the family or adopted in and then it’s like “guess i’m stuck with this person for the rest of my life, huh.” like sure i know some siblings can become distant, but in my experience, it’s much more likely for siblings to be the ones ppl stay close to as time goes on. and it’s also like...you don’t love them for the reasons you chose to love your friends or lovers or whatever because you didn’t get to pick them, they’ve just been there, and there’s no pressure like the kind that comes from your parents, who want you to excel at life in measurable ways, hit milestones, etc. they’re not like friends or dates who need interaction and frequent contact to maintain the bond. you can fuck off for four years and then show back up at your sister’s house and be like “yo it’s me, loser” and it’s like no time has passed at all.

and more than that, there’s the whole “living through the same childhood?” that kinda connects you. and how if you’ve lived your whole life on equal footing with someone, under the same roof, you learn to read them better than anyone else, w/out even having to try. and you’re already used to all their little quirks and the annoying things they do specifically to mess with you, you have  inside jokes, you share a lot of the same opinions about things, you know the old traditional common ground you can always stand on to ease back into familiar roles.

I guess I just wanna say that I’m really lucky that I have a sister who is so close that we’ll probably live together until we both die of old age. like there’s something about growing old with your sister that just hits different than a spouse or a friend. it’s like...having a friend that you love unconditionally, who you know almost better than you know yourself...and also if anyone mentions them in a sexual context you can make an exaggerated “Ew, GROSS, I’ll have you know that my sister is HIDEOUS!” fuss every time. it’s like, platonic soulmate material. like if i had to pick one person to live with for the rest of my life, i wouldn’t even have to think. i’d just pick my sister immediately. and i’m like 100% sure she’d pick me, too.