Trading Places

If I could trade places with anyone then it would have to be my older sister. She is so driven in life, and she knows exactly what she wants. She has been attending the University of Oregon for three years, and is heading into her last year. She has been taking summer classes since her freshman year, so she could graduate on time. She plans on following her dream by getting into medical school. My entire life I have always hated how great she was at school and how it was not fair that my parents expected the same out of me. As I got older I realized that nothing came easy to her, but she worked hard to get where she is. She has pushed me to my limits in school and in life. Never in my life would I have thought I would be saying how I wanted to be just like her. My entire life I have wanted to be the complete opposite, and now in college I find myself sounding more and more like her every day. My sister is one of the happiest people I know, and she always says “why argue with someone over something stupid, when you could have been spending that time happy.” Sometimes I think it comes to easy for her. I find myself very lucky to have grown up with someone so inspiring. She never judges anyone and is always willing to help. There are so many qualities about her that I wish I had, but we are both unique in our own ways. I just happened to get some of the unlucky genes in life. She is honestly the one person that I would ever want to trade places with. I could not imagine growing up in life, and not having someone like her to look up to.