• You look like a witch!
• You're good at nothing!
• Why are you always so annoying?
• Why don't you wear makeup to sleep?

These are the only ‘compliments’ I have received from him. Ever heard that youngest in the family is always the naughtiest, stubborn and rebellious. But it's quite opposite in my family as I've already occupied that vacancy. I have my own ways to get things done while he's always good, kind, innocent and very adaptable.

I have seen you growing up with the quirkiest and weirdest habits which sometimes annoys me to the core. Those bizarre nicknames you give me which I can't share with any and gradually got habituated to. Despite me being touch-sensitive, you can't keep your dirty hands off me. And Why do you eat everything with sauce? Who does that? Also, I still can't categorize you under the left or right-handed or whether you're ambidextrous? Sometimes I'm amazed to see your two-sided brain working simultaneously. You're very much talented and keep your optimistic mind working as it is.

Despite growing together in the same family and environment, You and I are polar opposites and these differences leading to numerous fights. At times, I wonder, how are we living under the same roof? It's not the blood but the bond keeping us together. We know each other secrets to an extent that if we try and pull a thread we never know how many knots are going to untie.

We never thank or apologise but we just start talking although every time it's you who comes to me. There have been times where I've taken you for granted but I want you to know you can never be replaced and that a brother like you is what I've always wanted. You know me like the back of your hand, my favourites, my strengths and weaknesses, you're the only one I'm very much transparent to which makes our bond unbreakable and incomparable.

You never compliment me, always nag me but have your own ways to express your love:

• Knock knock! the trouble is here.
• Common, I'm bored let's go out.
• I'm ordering food, you want any?
• Tell me, ‘this or that?’
• So, I want your opinion….
• Everything will be ok, I'm here for you.

Every day I realise more and more that I'm nothing without you, I wouldn't do anything without your support, I couldn't stand anybody without your back. I wouldn't make any decisions without your opinion. I'm strong but with you, I'm tenacious, gutsy, energetic and unstoppable.