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The other day my cousins was helping me (15) and my mom get groceries out of the car, my guy comes out and flexes his arms telling us all how strong he is. I watch him as he proceeds to reach into the car and grab the gallon of milk, from the minute he picked it up he struggled pretty significantly to carry it into the house, he basically dropped it bringing it out of the car, And he struggled even more putting it up on the table. He was so proud of himself after that. He started running around the house with his shirt off flexing his arms again and really bragging that he brought the milk in to the house by himself and that he’s stronger than all of us. I’m sitting here thinking, calm down there little guy, you’re bragging that you’re super strong, and you can’t even lift a jug of milk. even when you used both of your hands and all of your body weight, you struggled literally the entire time, from the very second you picked it up. You weren’t even strong enough to open the back door, and you needed your aunt to place the milk on the counter for you. So yeah, kiddo, that little milk jug that you could barely even lift is not anything to brad about, it is not heavy at all and you almost cannot pick it up
Today my other cousin insisted she turned off a couple of the lights that we left on as we were leaving the house, I watched her get up on a stepstool, stretch out her arms, and start jumping, still barely grazing the switch, I’m pretty sure she just got lucky given that she had to jump up so many times. She then was bragging about how she was tall and able to reach the light switches. I mean Chill out. kiddo, you just gave me a hug, and all I can do was rub the top of your hair to show you affection because you… Aren’t very tall… You were literally hugging my shins/knees. I just watched you climb up on a stepstool, stretch your arms up, and even need to jump as high as you could. You had to readjust that stepstool a good four or five times even once you finally got it, your finger is barely raised it. On top of that, little one, I just had to help you open the car door because you couldn’t reach the door handle, I mean not that any of my cousins would be strong enough to open the door… Oh yeah, my mom had to pick you up and put you in the car seat because you’re not tall enough to do it yourself.
Also, when I’m walking with any of my cousins, I’m literally walking ridiculously slow and they can’t seem to keep up, let alone an average pace. Like OK yeah kiddies you’re not very fast at all. When we were walking in the grocery store both of my cousins had a really hard time keeping up with us. We ended up carrying one of them while the other one rode in the cart; they are not fast at all
It is the same story with my nephew., like OK, sure, I guess you helped me set the table, when in reality she isn’t strong enough to carry the plates, or even tall enough to put them on the table. When she tried to carry the cups over she dropped them all on the floor. So she didn’t really do anything as I did it. And here is my nephew bragging that she set the table, then proceeds to use a tall stepstool to climb into a chair with her booster, still being seated pretty low. After dinner she thought she was being really helpful by cleaning up. When in reality me and my mom had we’re giving her small and light items for her to carry to the sink, and like I said, she isn’t tall enough to reach anything on the table, let alone the counter. So her help was slowing down tremendously.
So why would I pretend that my cousins or my nephews put in an actual good effort? What is impressive about bringing a little milk jug inside? If that’s the case then me bringing in the other groceries should be impressive. flipping three average switches, if that’s the case then me turning off the alarm system is impressive. Keeping up with someone walking normally, or even at a slow pace is not difficult, if that’s the case then me walking up a flight of stairs is impressive. To add to all of this, my cousins struggled to even remotely do these very simple tasks.