A Big Brother Is My Role Model

A big brother was somebody you look up to because they are your role model. My brother was my role model growing up, but that quickly changed after one day which transformed into over a year. Though he was a bully and pushed me around, he was my big brother and when he did something it was “cool.” He liked football, so I liked football. He grew his hair out, so I grew my hair out. He did drugs so.. that’s where I realized I shouldn’t blindly follow somebody because he was my brother. Growing up with a brother who was addicted to the prescription medication Oxycontin affected me and shaped who I am today. We grow up knowing how evil and bad drugs are and how they will ruin your life, yet people still do them. This begs the question: Why? Why are people compelled to do drugs despite everything we have learned? Was it retaliation to the system and …show more content…
Seeing my brother almost die that night was a lot for a twelve year old to handle. I felt my childhood crumbling beneath me with every step forward I made in finding out more about my brother’s problem. Well, in any case, without me telling anybody, my parents still found out. My dad warned him that if he didn’t get clean, he was going to kick him out of the house. So going into my brother’s potential freshman year of college at Brookdale, he instead went to rehab and took his first semester off. He went to outpatient and began his first semester in the second semester of the school year. He had to take other drugs (which were prescribed) to offset the terrible withdrawals he was experiencing. Despite all of the adversity he was facing, he still made the dean 's list almost every semester he was at Brookdale. But, after two years, he was officially clean, and went off to Boston College. This past spring, he graduated cum laude with his Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and was now going for his Master’s Degree at his alma