Your first friends/enemies! Siblings :)

Where oh where do I start. Most of us can't stand our brothers and sisters when we are growing up. We fight with each other, we scream at each other, kick, punch and try to hurt each other as much as we can when we are growning up. You are always fighting for attention, angry that the other one is alive. You really don't need a reason to go off when it comes to your brothers and sisters. You will rat each other out for the littlest thing and help each other get into trouble. And as long as you clean up the blood, your parents really don't want to hear about it anymore!

If you are one of the lucky ones, as you grow up and hopefully mature, you may start to form a tolerable relationship with your brothers and sister. You may be able to sit in the same room with them without punching and kicking. You may have a conversation at the table without name calling and screaming. You may actually agree on things once in awhile and who knows, maybe even watch tv together. But you will be at separate ends of the room of course. You pay take rides from each other to the mall or movies. You will need each other and out of necessity, you will be kind and try to get along.

Maybe as you become a young adult you will become friends with your brother and sister. Crazier things have been known to happen. You may hang out together. Sometimes you may call each other for advice. Miracles could happen and you could go out to dinner, plan a trip together. You will rely on each other. You won't even realize it's happening. This may not happen until there is a life changing event in your life. Someone may get married, one of you has a baby, graduates from college or joins the military. All of a sudden, one day you may even need each other so much, you won't know what you did with out them. You will come to rely on each other just to get through the day. You need to know they are there for you and you want them to know that you are there for them. You both have been through the same situation and can relate to each other. And that will bring you to a level of closeness that couldn't have been achieved without that tragedy or life changing event.

But like everything else in life, these relationships will have a life cycle also. The day will come when these relationships may start to fade. The person you were super close with will start to slip away. The siblings you were so so with might remain the same or seem strained. The one you were getting through things with might seem to feel like you are losing them all over again. And it might take another tragedy to get you all back together. But no matter what you are brother and sister. And hopefully that bond will keep you always and forever in each others hearts.