Siblings

I just recently got older. 

Yes I know each day, minute, second, I’m getting older, but I just hit the marker where I now say I’m actually a year older. For those of you who know me (which I’m assuming is pretty much everyone who reads this), you know I have a younger brother. We never went to the same school (he was in private schools I in public), and we (like most male siblings) would argue and fight a lot of the time when we were younger. 

After I’d been off at college for a while and came home for a break, we were talking and he said to me “Since you’ve gone to college you’ve become a lot cooler and easier to talk to”. I kind of shrugged this off at the time, but now that he’s in college too I see what he meant. 

When we were younger I would always tease him. I would always be irritated with the things that he did. Sibling rivalry was very much present. To this day I still call him “short man” or “little man” even though he’s now my height. Here’s the thing though, I think that for brothers (I can’t speak to sisters), the teasing and the like is just how we deal with our younger counterparts. 

There hasn’t been a single moment in my life that my brother’s been present for that I wouldn’t have gone after anyone who hurt or made fun of him. I’m not a violent person, but that’s just how I felt (and still feel) about him. 

He’s my younger brother.

He’s someone who I can’t imagine not having been a part of my life. He’s amazingly intelligent, caring, and is so like me in so many ways (thank you genetics). 

I don’t think I’ve ever explicitly told him that I would do anything for him, but somehow I think he knows. 

I’m sure he’ll read this posting. I’m sure at some point or another I’ll be made fun of by him (or possibly one of his friends who may also read this), but I think it’s something that has to be put out there. 

He’s my brother. He’s going to be around for all the things I go through in the future, and I for him. It’s just how life goes. 

Nothing can change the fact that he’s my little brother.