A love no one can comprehend if you are lucky enough to have a brother or sister around.
Having someone to grow up with and experience life with you is something so special.
It is someone that you have in your little bubble at home.
Looking back at old family videos growing up I realised that no matter where I was I always had a little boy in the background, my brother.
Never any competition between us but always glued by the hip.
The forced family days out, meal times, school runs and playing together.
And don't forget the dance parties too!
Who knew all of these would add up to something.
I think it’s quite an amazing thing because how do we go from playing with Barbie dolls to going out for drinks.
Now in your twenties, thirties, forties you grow up and change into what was one unit into two.
You grow up and you experience everything together even though you both experience it differently it is just you two vs the world.
Sibling love has got to be one of my favourite types of love.
It’s a love that can never be described because it’s shown within action.
I don’t know if there’s a point where I have turned around to my brother and said oh I love you, it’s a feeling that we have and you have many mutual agreements that whatever happens, we are always there for each other.
Even if that’s at 3am in the morning or the other side of the world, you just know that they’re going to be there.
Not even to listen to the serious stuff but the funny and daft things too.
It’s like a bond of friendship through the universe choosing you to be siblings.
Obviously having a sibling, not everyone has this relationship, but I am aware I am lucky enough to have one.
I like to think of it as a forced best friend that you don’t get a choice of who's your sibling.
Fortunately for me, mine is like my double with a few changes.
We are so different in many ways.
For example, I’m quite fiery and I’m very aware of that.
My brother is a very peaceful nurturing person.
How we deal with things is different but I think that’s how it works because when I'm fiery and need a person who is calm it stops me overthinking and worrying.
Just someone to sit there and say it is going to be okay, even though it might not be.
I know that I can just ramble to my sibling even if it’s weird and there’s that no judgment.
It’s that growth and the change in that no matter what the changes are, everything will always be the same.
Even though it has been hard for me to move away it has made us closer than it was before.
I will never get bored of the trips across to the landing to get to each other rooms to stand and be the weirdest or the countless times of near death experiences of a supposable playfight.
I feel lucky to be supported and inspired everyday and to always know no matter how alone I may feel I always have my sibling not too far behind.
I wonder if I created this relationship being the older sibling, but now I know that it has always been 50/50 three days before I turned four years old.
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