Posted by Angela2 on November 30, 2008, at 21:56:50
My brother is graduating from college soon and he's trying to figure out what to do after graduation. He always talks about himself as a very smart person. He IS very smart. He has a 4.0 and he's done some quite prestigious things. But he talks about it a lot, and he puts other people down. He usually does it when he is upset with them. But it seems like, every single day now, he's talking to my mom about how he's so smart and he has this great talent of being smart, and he doesn't want to do any kind of job that doesn't use his brain. and for some reason, I just have started to feel bad about myself. I think, well, if he's smart, I must be stupid.
Another thing that bothers me about him, is that he doesn't seem very nurturing or interested in me or my life or my activities. We talk and stuff. It seems to me like he thinks I'm stupid and worthless and he doesn't want me to succeed. Maybe that's all in my head, but that's how I perceive it when I say to him in a conversation, "we have some of the same interests." and he looks down and smirks and doesn't say anything. Like his interests are better. Like just because we have the same interests, he is better than me. ugh. I don't know if this sounds like I'm just crazy or what but I am sick of him, lol.
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