My Brother Rob

He's a pretty cool guy & I love him a lot. He's special. Not in a "special ed" kind of way, but he is different then most others. Ah hell, all the kids in my family are "different" in some kind of way. We were never team players growing up. Just a fact of life. My oldest brother Mike played all the important sports growing up and for all of his school teams until the day the Junior high told my brother Rob he couldn't play because of his feet. Then Mike dropped out of everything-immediately. The high school was devastated-they wanted Mike playing & needed him to play. But if Rob couldn't, Mike was going to either. Loyalty is like that in our family-guess it's the Native American Indian in us-or the French Canadian-either way, we're stubborn as mules at times. I remember Rob being so upset because he wanted to play sports. At the time I was on a kiddie league swim team during the summer up in Canada & when I got home, I too refused all sorts of team dependent sports. Thankfully kickboxing is a one on one sport & does not have to be team oriented. So I chose that & stuck with it through my teenage years. I played a little bit of rugby in college for a semester for my university. But after not being team oriented for so many years-I dropped off. My brothers & I were all on the same paintball team for a while. I think it was the only "team" sport we all truly enjoyed! I am proud of Rob these days. They are times I think he is an A number one asshole & times growing up that I wanted to throttle him. There are even instances in our adult years that walk the line of us losing our friendship (which would hurt my mother so I think that has kept us in line on those rare occasions). Rob is a good guy though. He's pragmatic & funny, doesn't take shit from anyone, loves his two sons & wife, is an awesome emergency flight nurse here in our county, is smart & is somewhat of an adrenaline junkie but that's assuaged by riding Life Flight. He's my brother and I love him, even when I am mad at him. I still think he's the biggest yuppie in our family though. I may not be too far behind him but still, he is the worst of us! :)