ISSUE NO 5: BROTHERHOOD

Brotherhood

It is a term used for more than one topic, one of them, which I am going to discuss with you, is the relation between brothers that are related to each other by blood. Many of us may not have brothers, but have friends or relatives or even one of their parents whom they consider a brother and that’s exactly what I want to talk about. 

We might think or consider someone as our brother but there is no one like our brothers whom we have shared the same mother, father, family, house and grew up together.  They are the ones who would never judge you. You might think of it as if you were one soul and separated to be you and your brother. I say that my brother means the world to me. Each one of us has his own ideas and memories with his brothers, some of us think of them as relatives, protectors, heroes or even his own parents, but whatever was the idea, you can’t live without them.

Especially, if you were the youngest  member in your family; you will have the attention, care, love and all these annoying things you hate from your elder brothers, so that sometimes you think that they are your parents not your own brothers. It is a bitter sweet feeling because it can be very annoying -trust me. But, at the same time if you have it, you would not change it for the world for one simple reason; that is you can’t exchange a part of your soul whatever price you are offered. 

I recall this incident from history which I know for fact to be true. It is told that once upon a time a king brought a lady whom he was about to kill her husband, son and brother and gave her the choice to save one of them. Can you imagine how cruel is that? Anyway, she chose her brother saying that she can always get married and have kids but how can she have another brother when her parents are dead. If you can only imagine how brave, strong, loving woman she is. 

Can you think of a situation as bad as this one? Nowadays, people had lost a lot of these pure, tender, precious feelings with their parents so how about their brothers.

So, whenever you have a fight with one of your brothers just, remember this lady and try to think: does the thing you are fighting about worth it? Does it worth losing or hurting your own brother?

To conclude my article, I like to thank God for giving us such blessings as having brothers. So, go home and tell your brothers how much they mean to you. Trust me, you won’t regret it.

With love

Written by: 

Israa. A. Ameen