My brother will turn 19 this December. In the last month, he began his first semester of college, started working his first job at a local supermarket and has even started driving all on his own. Despite some rocky high school years that every teenager goes through, I’m proud of my little bro and the steps he’s taken toward a successful future.
Now… at no point in that opening paragraph did you read that he also requires me, his big brother, needing to experience some sort of failure for his success to happen, did you?
What is it about a rivalry between sibling that makes victory taste that much sweeter and defeat feel that much worse?