Paper # 2 – Birth Order

 HOW MY BIRTH ORDER INFLUENCES MY LIFE ADJUSTMENT

 

When I think about my relationship with my brothers it makes me understand some aspects of my behavior as an adult. I’m the oldest of four children, two boys and two girls. Some aspects of my life are strongly determinate by the fact that I was the oldest. Leadership is one of characteristic of my personality that has that kind of influence. Try to be the first of doing things, to be ahead of some situations, to be frequently exposed. And also to be protective, responsable. Some people say that in a certain way I am a role model, as a friend, as a husband and professional. I don’t feel like a role model and I never tried to be, but sometimes people ask me about their on lives.  

 

As the oldest child I used to be the leader of everything until a certain age. I used to have the ideas of games, to be asked about what to do, to protect little brothers and sisters from other children in the neighborhood. I was always the first asked about who did something wrong, and probably it was really me.

After certain age, sometimes I used to be a little bossy and it causes some problems in the relationship with my brothers. As long as I was getting older I became more friend, just like a second father.

 

I really think that being the oldest child caused great influence in personality and my behavior. Until today I have this kind of leadership that became since I was a very young boy.

 

 

 

Paper # 1 – Introduction – Talking about Myself

Talking about me

 

I used to think about me as an independent man. Someone who has been looking for some kind o freedom along my life time. It is a kind of feeling that makes me move, go ahead, look for different things to do. Beside the fact that I´m 42 years old, I still think about myself as someone looking for new thinks, new challenges, different people to be with, and different places to go. The image I make about me is about someone in constant change, looking for new abilities and especially new kind of vision of the things.

 

Since I was a child I used to do things in a different way. When I was at school I used to have a different behavior with guestions, arguing all the time with the things that I could not agree with. It was not easy to be against the rules but I was also breaking the rules and trying to be able to be part of that kind of school society.

I remember when I got my first job and at the same time people used to like my kind of vision of things, my way of doing things in a diffent way, but at the same time breaking some rules that was not suppose to be broken.

When I was younger, so much younger than today, I used to be a kind of guy who was always changing something around me. My clothes, my hair, my room, my girlfriend, they were always changing.

 

Nowadays I´m still changing, in a different way, but I´m always trying to change the way my life is. The things I do, the music I´m listening, people I met, places I go.

I thing it is a kind of necessity keep looking for freedom. And the way I feel free is having new experinces.