A Sister

My sister is my bestfriend. I know a lot of people feel that way because they might go and have a “girls night” or talk about boys and they get so deep that they share a bond that is everlasting. And thats nice, but my sister is different. She is hands down the smartest person I’ve ever had the pleasure of knowing in my life. So intelligent that it overwhelms her person so much she probably isn’t even aware of the magnitude of her mind. It’s not just knowing a lot about a subject or being top in her class its the way her mind processes ideas worthy of major debate in a matter of seconds. The way she casually integrates words like “invalidation” into our mile a minute conversations when I couldn’t even find the words I’m looking for. She’s unique in the way that she’s dealt with all this pain, but before I even need to bestow any of my “brotherly wisdom” on her she heads it off and tells me what it took me more than her 19 years to even fathom. She says it like she’s just talking about anything too though. Not like its something so profound people have to watch countless talk show hosts and read all the latest self help books to even start to grasp the concept. My sister speaks to be heard not just to speak and she has the same intense dialogue running through her mind as I do. All of her words and ideas jumping on top of each other competing to get out, but they come out more flawlessly than if she was reading from a sheet of paper. She was always like this though, everytime i talk to her I’m so suprised at how intellectually astounding she is so in the know about what she feels about the things she speaks on. I’m not surprised because its something new for her to be unique in the way that she is, she’s been like that for a really long time. I mean I think back to all the conversations that we would have sitting on the counter late at night getting everything out in a matter of hours that we couldn’t during the day because of how full and how busy our house was. Middle children. Remembering the before and living the now. She’s my absolute best friend in the whole world I’ve never met anybody that inspired me to be so much more than who I am to learn about everything that i could because anything that i could show her as her brother she could run with and take it to places I couldn’t even fathom, because she has that gift. My sister is the reason I’m so excited to keep getting older and keep gaining experiences because i know that means that she will be too. She’s the reason I’m so excited to have children because i cant wait until they can see us together and feel how magic it is when we both get into a zone that goes so deep its somewhere only we know. I will forever be my sisters protector, because i love her more with every breath, but she will always be my keeper because when you do what someone like her has done for me there’s just no other choice.