Essay About My Brother

There are 86,400 seconds, 1,440 minutes, 24 hours in a day, and 365 days in one year, I used to spend all that time with my brother. Many of us have faced challenges in our formative years and we struggled with them. Some of those struggles might have changed who we are or how we will later approach life. Recently life hit me with one of its many obstacles; my brother Jonathan leaving for college. I never thought that it would be so hard for me to understand and accept the fact that he had to go, but on the long run I learned so much.
My brother had the prestigious honor of being selected to be a part of the National Youth Orchestra, due to that he had to go on tour starting late June and came back until early August. Him being temporarily …show more content…
I tried my hardest to create unforgettable memories, to have the best laughs of my life, to have adventures, to do things we weren't allowed to do, to share my deepest thoughts with my brother. The fastest three weeks of my life were gone before I knew it and it was time to see my brother go. The day before he left to Vancouver there was lots of packing that we had to do. While packing Jonathan’s things it hit me that he was leaving the day after, making it extremely difficult for me to store any of his things for the trip, because it would be the last time in a long time that I would see the walls of his room full of music posters, or his closet full of clothes. The next morning we all got up early to get ready to take my brother and my dad to the airport. When we were all ready to leave, my brother was standing in the living room with his clarinet ready to play something so we all sat down to listen him play, I couldn't hold the tears in any longer and I broke down at the sound of his playing because that was the last time he would play for us before he left. Before we arrived at the airport we stopped at Mcdonald’s to eat breakfast. After breakfast we got to the airport and it was time to say goodbye. This to me has been the most emotionally difficult thing I have done so far, once again we all broke into tears. And they were off. His absence started to really affect me …show more content…
There were multiple nights of sobbing on my own unwilling to accept and face the reality. My brothers birthday is August 23 and a day before I spent all night writing a letter for him, I wrote my heart out on that letter expressing everything I felt and saying things I never had the courage to say. The day of his birthday I felt so emotionally damaged because I had never been apart from my brother on his birthday. The moment I talked to him after he recieved my letter I felt a relief. I changed my mentality and from that moment on I was all positivity. I am proud to say that I have overcome an obstacle that seemed impossible for me to move on