Compare And Contrast My Childhood And My Cousins

Throughout childhood and adolescence, children and teenagers tend to become jealous of those more fortunate than them, whether in an economic, social, or even political standpoint. All throughout my own childhood and adolescence, I have been somewhat envious toward the childhood of all my cousins, as they had the financial stability, the picture-perfect parents, and the “normal” siblings that I wish I had. Although my childhood and those of my cousins share a few similarities, such as being raised under similar traditions and rules, theirs was obviously better from almost all perspectives. Growing up, my parents weren’t well to do in a financial point of view. In fact, there was a point in their lives in which they were both in horrendous debt that affected the way we lived. This continued throughout my childhood and is still somewhat present till this day. Although divorced now, my parents, well, only my dad, is not the man that I would go to for financial advice. At one point, he was pretty much putting money in a paper shredder, watching it destroy our childhood bit by bit, paper by paper. On the contrary, almost all my cousins lived a financially stable childhood. In fact, they were all spoiled and given whatever toy they want, whatever new

During my childhood and everyone else’s in the family, traditional Arabic rules and customs were what we were raised by and what we grew up upon. Everyone in the family was told to “do this and that” or “don’t do this and that,” and it was the same for everyone in the family. For example, we were all told not to consume any alcoholic beverages or consume any food derived from a pig or a hog, and we all followed and shared that similarity. Other than this connection, my childhood really differs from the rest of my relative’s in almost every other