Attention Seeking Arguments

We love them, we hate them.. It's definitely a love-hate relationship, but I'm pretty certain that even though it feels like we argue with them all the time, we probably love them more than we supposedly 'hate' them. Even so.. they can annoy us way beyond our expectations.

I'll admit, even though I've had many "sibling-rivalry" experiences, I still haven't figured out how to remain calm and take no notice in what the other person is saying or doing. The one thing that absolutely ticks me off and that has inspired me to begin this blog today is when a sibling attempts (and succeeds.. but of course, you don't tell them that..) to annoy you, whether you've actually done something or not.

Now personally, I don't ever feel the need to frustrate or annoy anyone if they haven't initiated an argument or provoked me first. If they have, however, that's a different story. Anyway, I honestly don't see the reasons behind siblings (or anyone, for that matter) irritating someone out of pure boredom. Yes, maybe they do it for attention, but nevertheless, there's so many other things that I can think of to get attention. In fact, here's some useful options:

1. You could get together with some friends and make some silly videos and post them onto YouTube. You could possibly get a lot of views, and then have a million people watching you and telling you how "amazing" you are.
2. You could learn an instrument and then enter yourself into many different competitions, and when you invite people over you can show them the wonderful talent that you've developed.
3. You can buy a gorilla suit off E-Bay, practise your monkey sounds and walk around the block with a megaphone sharing with the whole neighbourhood your latest skill.

Okay frankly, I wouldn't advise to follow through with the last point. Although, the first two are only two of many different activities that you could do to receive positive attention from friends, family, and even people around the world. Notice that I said POSITIVE attention. I said this because triggering an argument is most certainly producing negative attention, and I'm sure many will agree with me when I say that it's definitely unwanted.