The “breakup” I am not getting over

I’m going through a breakup right now. In life, you’ll probably go through a lot of breakups. Breakups with your boyfriend, girlfriend, or a friend(those who really suck) but after some time, you’ll get over them too. But the breakup I am talking about is something that you will never get over (at least deep down inside). “THE SIBLING BREAKUP”.

I’m not referring to the breakup where we won’t talk to each other or steal each other’s food (let me tell you, this will never happen). I’m talking about that actual moment when you have to physically split up! This recently happened to me. My elder brother moved to Gujarat for his further studies. It’s been so lonely and boring without him.

Knowing that you have a brother to come home to, play with, be stupid, or make fun of them, they are like your first friends. If you have them, you don’t necessarily need other friends. I don’t know how many times I have stolen my brother’s food or even taken the larger share of the cake or the chocolate, it’s just fun stealing your sibling’s food or even their toys. I even stole some of my brother’s friends. Now they are not HIS friends, they are OUR friends now.

Yes, they are annoying so many times. But I would be a liar if I said I didn’t learn anything from them. You just look up to your siblings just like me, you try to be them. Having an elder brother really helped me in a lot of things. He taught me cool tricks in mathematics, English grammar, memorizing tricks, solving the RUBIK’s cube(yeah that’s where I got it from), and many more things. I have really bad taste in fashion, but my brother knows quite a bit about colors and clothes. He practically does all of my shopping. If he wasn’t there to judge me, who knows in what weird outfits I’d have gone out with! Being with them teaches a lot of things you probably would’ve never learned on your own.

As my brother left to make something of himself, things at home have changed quite a bit.  Most siblings can transition from enemies to friends in a matter of time. One moment you might be hitting each other or arguing and the next moment you’d be covering for each other when it comes to dealing with your parents. The absence of that ever-present companion is hitting me hard. Now I have to do all the chores(although being the elder one, he never did any and pushed all of it on me). I also got his space now.

At the end of the day, him moving out of the house almost means I’ll meet him only when he returns home or when we go to meet him. But we'd still be "THE BROS". Being the younger one in the family, I am the last person to leave the nest. So I’ll still miss him, but at least I don’t have to share food with him (evil laughter). The chocolate won’t be broken into half but I’d eat the whole chocolate on my own (evil laughter again).

“Siblings don’t need words to understand each other. They have perfected their own secret language of smiles, sniffs, sighs, gasps, winks, and eye rolls.”

“Siblings know each other more than their parents do 😜”