We Are Young, We Run Free

Today I took my little brother and a friend to see The Muppet Movie. Partly because I wanted to spend some quality sibling time and thought he might enjoy the film, but mostly because I loved it so much the first time and was dying to see it again.

The movie was great as per usual; I laughed and cried in all the same places and left with a smile on my face and a song in my heart (ha). I’m concerned about the bonding time though with little bro.

He’s 11 and he doesn’t really talk much or show expression so it’s hard to tell if he’s having a good time or not. He told me that he liked the movie when I asked, and he said that spending time together was okay when I asked and with prompting he said that yeah, he wouldn’t mind going to the movies with me again sometime.

I know it’s a stupid thought, but I’m really worried that I’ll move out of home and I’ll never see him and he’ll forget about me. It’s quite possible that I’ll leave home next year, even if it isn’t altogether probable. If that does happen, he’ll go through all of high school without me around. He’ll make friends that will come over and think that he only has one big sister or he’ll have a girlfriend that I’ll never meet and I just won’t be a part of his life anymore.

I guess I just don’t want to be forgotten.