Personal Development: The Learning Experience of Cousin Relationships

This essay discusses the significant learning experiences derived from cousin relationships. The author reflects on how interactions with cousins, from childhood through adolescence, have fostered personal growth and the development of essential life skills. The essay highlights the acquisition of communication skills, the ability to navigate both positive and negative experiences, and the cultivation of empathy and selflessness. The author emphasizes the role of cousins in providing emotional support, building confidence, and fostering a sense of belonging. The essay underscores the importance of these relationships in preparing individuals to face the world and navigate its challenges, ultimately emphasizing the value of these bonds in shaping one's character and outlook on life. The essay highlights that cousins can be best friends and stress relievers, providing a sense of security and support.

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How did you get along with your cousins?
Name of the Student
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Author Note

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This essay discusses about the learning experience that we get while getting along
with our cousins. In this present competitive world, our families are frequently scattered all
over the country. However, as far as my relationships with my cousins are concerned we are
very much closely tied irrespective of the geographical barriers. Although we meet once in a
year or twice now a days but our childhood was spend in the same city. Among the other
important learning experiences, the important thing that I learned was how to build
relationships.
We are six cousins altogether, from my father’s side, all of us sharing a warm and
strong bond. Childhood is periods in every individual’s life when growing up with cousins
can make one learn many important things in life. According to my own personal experience,
I can say I have learned how to share the good times as well as bad, the skill of
communication, discovering a common root and most importantly, respecting each other’s
differences. Cousins are those who have our shared piece of childhood. Many big and small
things are learnt when we are having a warm and lovable relationship with out cousins. I got
the flavor of independence from my cousins. However, I found that growing up with my
cousins helped me to learn many things in life be it simple games in childhood or handling
emotional problems in the adolescent stage. If we have older cousins the smaller ones
idolizes them and thus, their experiences can act as a lesson to the smaller ones.
I am the older one among my gang of cousins so what I experienced is responsibility.
By taking up the role as a big cousin, I started taking responsibility seriously. Moreover, I
also learnt that age does not matter when interacting with others. This is because I have
cousins who are very much younger than I am, while communicating with them I realized
that age does not matter if the other person comes interesting. However, growing with
cousins actually helps us in getting prepared to face the outer world because the values and
characteristics that are shaped in growing up will help us in the end. Further, I learnt how to

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be selfless because of the guidance that I had received from my cousins in developing
sympathy.
The most important thing that I came to realize is that I learnt how to be confident
from them because in any problematic situation, I had the feeling that no matter what my
cousins are there to support me and this thought actually helped me to gain confidence in
whatever I do. They not only provide physical support in bad times but also help in
improving our mental health. In later years also they can be our biggest support because they
can be our best friends and biggest stress relievers because cousins can easily safeguard us
from the negative effect of stress.
Thus, from my personal experience, it can be concluded that what I learnt was that
with cousins we can actually cherish every moment we spent together, they guides us without
any biasness and encourages us by believing in what we are.

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