Friends are the people we choose to have in our lives. You can meet a friend anywhere and get close in a heartbeat. You'd tell him/her all about your hopes, dreams, aspirations and fears. You'd share funny anecdotes about your childhood with them. All this to help them get to know you better.
But siblings, and more importantly brothers, are the best friends god bestowed upon us. It was nature's way of ensuring you had a lifelong friend. And the best part about having a brother or a sister is, they'll know you better than any friend ever can.
But it gets a little tricky when it is the case of a brother and a sister. You grow up together as buddies but over a period of time as you grow into individuals your ideas begin to clash. His opinion seems like interference. Her disapproval of it seems like arrogance. Differences creep in, and if not talked out - leads to distance.
It's when the time has passed - when you both become professionals, get married, have kids and start raising your own individual families - you realize what a joy it was to be a child once. To have lived and enjoyed your childhood. And to have had the luck to share it with someone who has witnessed every big or small detail about it.
A brother can play many roles in your life. Sign your report card when your parents don't. Give you a little extra cash when your parents refuse. Support your dreams and decisions. And unconditionally love and pamper you.
It is a sheer pleasure to have a brother as one of your best friend.
From fighting over a box of chocolates as kids, to shouting at each other during teenage years over the phone. From hiding secrets from parents to blurting them out at times to annoy the other. Tears, heart breaks, laughter, pranks. No one knows you better than your brother.
But it gets a little tricky when it is the case of a brother and a sister. You grow up together as buddies but over a period of time as you grow into individuals your ideas begin to clash. His opinion seems like interference. Her disapproval of it seems like arrogance. Differences creep in, and if not talked out - leads to distance.
It's when the time has passed - when you both become professionals, get married, have kids and start raising your own individual families - you realize what a joy it was to be a child once. To have lived and enjoyed your childhood. And to have had the luck to share it with someone who has witnessed every big or small detail about it.
A brother can play many roles in your life. Sign your report card when your parents don't. Give you a little extra cash when your parents refuse. Support your dreams and decisions. And unconditionally love and pamper you.
It is a sheer pleasure to have a brother as one of your best friend.
From fighting over a box of chocolates as kids, to shouting at each other during teenage years over the phone. From hiding secrets from parents to blurting them out at times to annoy the other. Tears, heart breaks, laughter, pranks. No one knows you better than your brother.
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