Kendall Su

I believe in the power and love of family and that it only takes one thing to bring them back together again. Specifically, I believe in fresh starts, new beginnings, and that it is never too late to start over. As a kid I grew up with my older brother as my idol, a kid I could look up, a kid who no matter what was considered the coolest and a kid I wanted to grow up to be. As I grew older I started to realize that we didn’t have the typical relationship, I found out that it wasn’t normal to only see your brother on special occasions, I realized that as much as I looked up to him, he hardly noticed me. Don’t get me wrong I still loved him and wanted to spend time with him and looked forward to seeing him, after all he really taught me something, because of him I strived to be the best big sister I could be to my younger sister. Making sure I was there for her whenever she needed me, and tried to make sure that her dreams of growing up to be like me were not let down like mine were. The image of my big brother being the best, the smartest, the coolest, and the kid I wanted to be, slowly started to fade and over the course of a couple years diminished completely. I saw how much work my dad went through simply trying to get his son to come to Christmas dinner. My brother simply didn’t care or want to deal with our family, we talked when we needed to and that was about it.

That is until my parents were informed that they were going to be grandparents and my sister and I were becoming aunts, something we had been looking forward to for years! I was a little hesitated to be excited at first, sure he was having a kid but that didn’t mean all our problems were just going to disappear and we were all going to be one happy family again. Shockingly I was wrong, over the following nine months my brother and I began to hold legitimate conversations, he would swing by our house randomly, and he was making an effort to be apart of our family. When I asked him on why he was doing this he simply said “I want to create a family as great as you guys were to me for my daughter.” On October 19th the image of my brother being my role model returned when I saw him hold and care for his daughter Kendall for the first time. I decided that day that I really did want to be just like my big brother. I also realized that one small baby (even if they aren’t born yet) can bring a family together and that it is never to late to repair relationships, this is believe.