[onewhippedpuppy]

Yup. My parents doing like sports, are anti-alcohol, aren't very social, don't like being outside, don't have any post-HS education, and are fairly complacent and unmotivated people. My brother is much like them, he lives for movies and video games.

I love sports, enjoy a good drink, am outgoing with quite a few friends, spend every second outside that I can, have an engineering degree, and am a very motivated driven person. There are other differences, but they are more difficult to describe. My wife has often asked me how I am such the opposite of them. My only answer is that I spent a LOT of time with my grandfather as a child, who was constantly taking me to games, races, flying, and to a variety of social events. He's a business owner that works 50-60 hrs/wk, even at 79. I'm much more like him than I am my own father. The only parallels I can really draw between myself and my dad is that we are both DIY types, and in his younger years he was a pretty big car guy (not anymore unfortunately).

Sadly, I'm much more like my in-laws than the family that I'm actually related to.