OPPORTUNITY

Opportunity they say comes but once.
I never believed this saying until recently. My brother and I had
always been close. We were like a pair in a pod and our parents often
thought seething else was happening between us. When he gained
admission into the university and left for school, we drifted apart. I
rarely hear from him and if I call him he wouldn't pick my calls. I
became so worried that I left the house and town without saying a word
to my parents to look for him in school. When I got to his apartment,
I met him in the middle of a party dancing with half nude girl. I was
so surprised that my conservative brother had gone astray. Tapped him
and when he saw me, stopped the music as he turned to me. His friends
asked who the chubby girl is, he looked at me and replied, I also
don't know, maybe a secret admirer. I was so dumbfounded that I left
in anger rather than in tears. I vowed never to have anything to do
with a brother that denied me in the presence of his friends.
I had grown up and my brother came home to regain our long
lost friendship but I wouldn't bulge. I couldn't forget that day so
when he cried and begged for forgiveness, I didn't answer him. Two
weeks later, he died lung cancer. I wept like never before because
life gave ur another opportunity to be close again but I was bounded
by anger and didn't grab the opportunity, I was enslaved to anger and
lost my brother for life.

DEBBIE