Love Gained… Love Lost...

Nov. 24, 2010 - PRLog -- My big brother… man time flies when we are reaching for the sky!!! Looking back at all those years that went by… as I reflect through my rear view mirror to capture my eyes… all I can see are the many moments we shared as time flew by… such as the times we laid under the cool bamboo trees to avoid being fried… by the sweltering summer heat that limited our strides.. simultaneously staring off into the bright blue sky… pondering about the lives in each plane that flew by… hoping and dreaming about the good life and when it was our turn to fly… man those were the days when dreaming was fly…

I mean… I can remember us holding hands on our bikes as we descended down a hill… before entering into a deep corner that could have had us killed… man those were the day’s when being reckless allowed us to be so free…

I can remember anticipating your arrival from college… to hear about all the tales and knowledge… we spent the summer days working like slaves… but we fount ways to fully enjoy the best of each day… remember the days when you would cook while we played??? But never had any appetite to eat when it was time for the food to be shared…

We used to make possible out of the impossible… like when we transported water in the drought from the near by pond in a wheel barrel… we knew the only way to make it was to line the surface of the water with leaves… to avoid splashes that would cause us grief… man those days still stick out like leaves…

Even in my current days when I am filled with grief…  I learned from those days that the most important things in life is when we take time to breathe… when my world seemed dark… all I needed was a talk… from my big brother when others could not comprehend my bark…

My big brother was my role model and my super hero… I wanted to be cool like him… get beautiful girls like him… talk like him… walk like him… and to be just as smart as him… My big brother was never afraid to tell me when I went wrong… or when I seldom contradicted myself in conversations… he always wanted me to stand tall… to show the world that we were special… our lives run parallel on so many levels…

As we grew older our bond got dismantled… as we both pursued our purpose through the lives we were given… my heart some times ache… when I think about all the lost moments we could not take… but it is okay though… the good days we shared kept me through countless mistakes… you are still the coolest man I have known in all my states…

We are men trying to find ourselves… through giving love to those who may never know or see us for our true selves… in hopes of the love that will guide us through our purpose… the world can seem empty when the presence of a big brother’s love is trapped in absence…
We are fathers now and that is great… we get a chance now to fix most of the mistakes… as we guide our children through the right place… hoping that one day they will be able to take their rightful place… many years of living… avoiding mistakes… a lifetime of giving… to guide me through all my mistakes… brother you are loved… with every thing it takes… to share the rest of our days without worrying about past mistakes…

Neil O. Campbell

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