30 DAY CHALLENGE - DAY 7

What a question *phew*. I guess questions about your own person always are the hardest to answer. But given the challenge, I will do my best to answer this question as good and as honest as possible.

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Just when I think back, I have always felt different from the crowd, different from everyone else. Ever since middle school up til now. That would basically answer the reason for my social awkwardness with people I get to know and my mute behaviour amongst a group. But I guess what has always set me apart from the crowd I hung out with was, that I grew up in a big family. For my readers who do not know me that well yet, I have four siblings and I'm the second eldest. It was hard growing up and having to learn to be responsible at a very early age. In the beginning I really had to sacrifice my 'teenage' years, which supposedly have to be the most exciting years and the time you get to experience a lot of new things, for my siblings. So, I spent most of my spare time at home watching the kids. You'd get a lot of 'No I can't. Watching the kids' replies to hangout sessions with friends. Now thinking back, I guess that's the reason I developed into an introverted and, back then, to a pretty serious person. However, I do not regret anything of that because I knew that I helped out my parents a lot throughout the years. And I'm glad my parents trusted me a lot in the upbringing of the kids, especially the youngest one.