See how close they were, when they’re, just children, and, they still stayed very close, as they both, grow up, slowly, into adults, translated…
Raucous, came from my sons’ bedroom, it was something that happens every weekend as my eldest came home to spend the weekend from college. With the deepening of the night, the room slowly, settled down, I’d tiptoed into the room, to check, and in the dimmed out lights, I saw their maturing, yet very, childish features, and I couldn’t help, but be reminded of how they once were in childhood.
back when they were little…photo from online…
Sixteen years ago, as I brought my newborn younger son home from the hospital, my eldest ran out, hollering in excitement, “Where’s my younger brother, I want to see him!” That was, how they’d, first met.
They were one another’s best friends from growing up, and would often speak in childishness together. Once I was downstairs, and suddenly, I’d, realized, that I hadn’t heard from them awhile, then, I’d, started hollering, “What are you two doing?” And naturally, there came, to separate paces running, the steady and heavy was my older son, the quick, hopping steps, from my younger, turned out, the two of them, were, playing with the bathroom faucets.
They were four years apart, born, on the same day, it’d, made my friends and families shaken their heads in disbelief. They’d gone to the same elementary schools, and after they were off, they’d, held hands and walked home together, even the school teachers told, that they’d never seen, two brothers this close. As my eldest son went to high school, he’d made excellent grades in math and the sciences, and would tutor his younger brother on the subjects, and, although, they were born under the same signs, but, this was, where their differences started, showing up, they’d often gotten into spats on how the problems should be solved, but, as soon as break started, they’d, turned on the game consoles, and, returned to their original best friends status once more.
With the coming of age, my older son entered into the computer majors of university, his younger brother was under his influence, and started picking several computer-related courses back in high school, they’d started talking about programming, backers, and online safety, and other related issues. It seemed, that my younger son is about to, follow in his older brother’s footsteps, and select the related majors too, and because his older brother lived at school, and could only come home on the weekends, it’d made them, cherish their time together even more.
and now, as adults…photo from online…
Born on the same day, being so very close to one another, and, with similar interests, and shared the same goals. All of these coincidences, it’d, connected their lives together for sure. Although we couldn’t, stay and watch them forever, but I’m sure, they will help one another out, in this long road called life, they’re, not just, siblings, but also, the best of friends.
And so, this, is how close the siblings had been, since they were, growing up, and, the younger son followed in the footsteps of his older brother, and, it’s not just by sheer coincidence, it’s because of how they are, brothers!
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