My brother

My brother and I have been related to each other since he was born but -actually- we have only known each other since I was seven years old. We are only one year apart in age, but we have really different tastes and interests. So, we never agree about anything. Even talking about physical characteristics, we are different from each other, because he is white, blond and has green eyes while I am black and have brown eyes.

I really hate my brother, he is always disturbing me, he never answers me, he always tries to disrupt when he knows that I’m doing something important and he denounces me to my mother me when I break a rule. Also, something else that I really dislike in Mateus, that is my brother’s name, is his conversational style because he always does all the talking and never lets me to put a word in edgewise, this really bothers me. However, I think that these situations belong to a passing phase, because we are only teenagers and everything will probably change.

I really admire my brother because he doesn’t give up make his dreams turn into reality. Furthermore, I also learned with him to come up with simple and great approaches to solve some seemingly hopeless situations.

When we were five years old we used to be friends and to play a lot together. So, I wish we could in our future be as close as we were in the past.

Flávio Malta Fleury