One Big Mistake
I like to see my old man as the perfect man, even though I know he's not, as there is no such thing as a perfect man and they've been times where I've seen him make mistakes and all that, I just like to see him that way because he's my superhero and to me he is indeed perfect.
Anyways, enough of that childish stuff.. Lol
But you see, if there's one time where I feel my dad probably would have made one of the worse mistake as a parent, it was when I had recently just got my admission into the university.
You see, while I was getting ready to travel down to the east for school, I remember my dad kinda doing a rundown about the things he had to pay for me to get settled in and for some reason he had wanted me to stay at my own place.
Now why that might not sound like anything to you, the problem was that my elder brother was also schooling at the same school at the time, so it will only be normal for us to move in together to save cost. Well, for some weird reasons, that didn't cross my dad's mind at the time, probably because he knew that I and my eldest brother aren't exactly the best loving brothers out there.
For years we've always been on each others neck, each of us constantly thinking of ways that we could make the other person suffer the most, because personally I felt he hated me for no reason and I hated him for that reason.
Anyways, luckily my mom had immediately told him that it was totally unnecessary for me to have my own place if we both will be attending the same school. That probably was the best decision they had taken because even though the first few months weren't exactly smooth between myself and my brother (I probably called home more than a hundred times to complain about anything that he would do to me), we ended up getting close, settling our differences and now I can't even imagine life without him in it.
And now that everyone is at different places doing their own thing, whenever we jump on the phone to talk about anything, it sounds more like two loving brothers having a conversation rather than two mortal enemies who want nothing but to hate on the other... All thanks to that one decision that they had made correctly.
Good thing your mum intervened cause you and your sibling may just become strangers to each other in school. Forget the cost, right after university, and you both have had to live in your own houses, it wouldn't be easy to maintain communication and vibe as you should. But being in the same space made it just easy for you both to learn and lean on each other and to have disagreements, but the next minute, feel the love to care and protect your own.
Yeah you're right. It made us dependent on each other and solving each other's problem, therefore bringing us closer. It definitely was the right move.
With time we become more understanding and mature. So it's normal you and your brother became close. In your case your mother created the opportunity for both of you. Maybe she understood you well.
She did and thank God she did because I know for a fact that I and my brother would have been strangers if she hadn't done what she did.