Everyone at some point of their lives have been referred to as, oh you’re so and so’s daughter or oh you’re so and so’s sister? At these points, you begin to feel more so attached to someone instead of being your own individual. Being a teacher’s daughter and being a younger sibling has caused these problems to occur, plenty of times. To begin, growing up with a teacher as a mom people are constantly asking, “Are you Patti Bowles daughter,” or “Is your mom a teacher.” I love my mom to death don’t get me wrong it’s just these questions have become so common. Another instance of this is people asking, “How is your mom doing,” before they even ask about me. I know that sounds a little conceited but she comes up in more of my conversations
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I’ve heard these questions a billion times. It’s not that I mind these questions, it’s the principle behind it. I’ve just become “a sister” or “a daughter” instead of being known as Lara. I’m forever being a shadow of somebody i’m not. Being attached to somebody like that is like having a label attached to you constantly. It honestly feels like you don’t have a name any more you’re just a relation to somebody. The problem with being attached to someone is that it doesn’t allow me to have a name for myself. I don’t necessarily hate my name or want to change it, I just wish people wouldn’t always associate me to somebody else. Being a younger sister to, two older brothers hasn’t helped with trying to be an individual in this world. Going through school, it never failed that all three of us would have the same teachers. At the beginning of a new school year, all of my teachers would ask, “Have I had any of your siblings in my class before?” In my head, I would always think, oh great, here we go again, let the association game begin. I always answered politely with, “Yes, Greg and Jeremy Bowles.” Then for about 5 minutes we would have a conversation about their lives and what they are doing, and how they are doing. As you would imagine this got really old, really quick. Having a brother, who owns a business in the same town as the one you live in and
I’ve heard these questions a billion times. It’s not that I mind these questions, it’s the principle behind it. I’ve just become “a sister” or “a daughter” instead of being known as Lara. I’m forever being a shadow of somebody i’m not. Being attached to somebody like that is like having a label attached to you constantly. It honestly feels like you don’t have a name any more you’re just a relation to somebody. The problem with being attached to someone is that it doesn’t allow me to have a name for myself. I don’t necessarily hate my name or want to change it, I just wish people wouldn’t always associate me to somebody else. Being a younger sister to, two older brothers hasn’t helped with trying to be an individual in this world. Going through school, it never failed that all three of us would have the same teachers. At the beginning of a new school year, all of my teachers would ask, “Have I had any of your siblings in my class before?” In my head, I would always think, oh great, here we go again, let the association game begin. I always answered politely with, “Yes, Greg and Jeremy Bowles.” Then for about 5 minutes we would have a conversation about their lives and what they are doing, and how they are doing. As you would imagine this got really old, really quick. Having a brother, who owns a business in the same town as the one you live in and