Dear Older brother,

Thank you for being one of the best role models I could ever have in my entire life. You have taught me so many things that I cannot wait to apply in my life. Thank you for always picking me up when I fall (or when you push me). Without you, I would still be sulking in sadness after I failed my first test in the 6^th grade or that time when you actually pushed me down.

Thank you for the endless memories that I still carry with me and think about to this very exact day. The best memories made were when we weren’t trying to make any, they just happened. Thank you for leaving home and teaching me that although change is scary, it is necessary to succeed in life. Never would I expect to miss you this much but every day I wish we could go back to when we were younger and cause just as much trouble.

Thank you for having THE BEST taste in music because being forced to listen to your music wasn’t all that bad now that I think about it. Thank you for always telling me what songs sucked and which ones I should waste my money on to put on my phone.

Thank you for having a pretty good sense of fashion because without you I would still be wearing crocs and mid calves……. Oh wait, I still am but that is against your will. Thank you for telling me when I looked awful in something because you wouldn’t be caught dead with me in public wearing something you didn’t like.

Thank you for being so overprotective, even more than dad. Thank you for questioning if my shorts were too short, whose football jersey I brought home to wear to that Friday night football game and to decide if the new piercing I wanted was “appropriate” even though mom had already approved it.

But most of all, thank you for being so supportive. Thank you for the constant motivation to do better every time I don’t succeed. Thank you for pushing me to recover faster and better than I would if you were not there. Thank you for telling me that I do not have to be perfect but a close second will be just as good. Thank you for the endless surprises especially to graduation and all the gifts when you couldn’t be present, you made it up in the time we had together. Thank you for sitting through every single event from softball to those boring chorus concerts, you’ve been through it all.

Lastly, thank you for being the best big brother and influence anyone could ever have and thank you for being you.

Love Always,

Me