When I was a kid, I wanted to do everything my older sister did, exactly like she did it. If she took ballet lessons, I wanted to take ballet lessons. If she started to read a certain book, I picked up the same book right after her, and if she showed interest in an obscure hobby, suddenly I became infatuated with it as well.

Even before I realized that I could have interests of my own without having to copy my sister, my parents were quite clear that I couldn’t simply get everything that she got. «It doesn’t work like that, Bar, you can’t be the exact same person». That was what I was told. At first, I was mad that I wasn’t allowed to go with her to chess club, but when I realized I didn’t even like chess, being different from my sister started to make a lot more sense.

Hopefully, that would be the lesson for everyone involved in the story below, both kids and adults. Just because one kid gets to go to hockey lessons doesn’t mean the other must. Especially if the one who pays for the lesson is not actually related to the other kid.