A question that makes you think is worth asking

This week has had its challenges one of them being a big test we wrote but the bigger challenge for me this week was to do with some stuff at home. I have been living in a flat with my older brother for the last two years. We have always been close in our own way, he looks out for me all the time and I genuinely am proud to be his little sister. However when you living together things do not always run smoothly. For a while now we have not been seeing eye to eye and both of us have just been living around one another not with one another. Family is of great importance to me and when something isn’t right it weighs me down and I guess this thing with my brother has been doing just that for quite a while. It’s been a tough year for me in terms of varsity work and unfortunately its meant that a lot of my time is spent at my desk working. It’s really hard to explain and make those around you understand all the work that you have to do and what exactly it is that we do as OT’s. So my brother’s natural response to me working all the time is ‘you work too hard’, ‘you always so stressed and miserable’ and ‘you stress for nothing it’s not that bad’. I’ve become so frustrated with his ignorance that I just gave up with him completely, hence the situation of the two of us merely existing together in one flat. But this week when one of our usual fights began I just could not take it anymore and in between many tears I told him everything. Things that have been happening at varsity, my prac, my clients, how I hate living away from home, how hard it is to try and balance everything that has been slapped onto my plate. And all of a sudden I could just see my brother’s eyes being opened to everything that I had been fighting to tell him over the last few months. Shortly after this I was reading stuff on the internet and an article came up with a whole lot of pictures and the title “A question that makes you think is worth asking”. This were two of the

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These pictures made me think…. What have I done to make those that I love understand what is happening in my life? What have I done to show them the love I have for them? If I had just spoken up and said something would my brother and I be in the position we have been for the last few months? What has he done as my elder brother to try and help me? And one day when I am old, my parents will not be around but my brother probably will be. He is the only brother I have and is something like varsity work worth that much that it can get in the way of a relationship with a sibling. My soon to be career means the world to me but in the midst of it all I am not only a university student, I am also a sister, a daughter and many other things. I tend to forgot that sometimes.