a loss

I can't help but think that everything happens for a reason, and that people are taken away from us to go to a better place and so eventually we can learn more about life - the good and the bad aspects.
Three years ago i experienced a loss that i thought was unbearable at the time, as my older brother Mark suddenly died aged 25. He was someone that was always there when i needed anything and i couldn't have valued him enough for that.
This loss left me and my family and his friends devastated of course. His name couldn't be mentioned in my house for a good year due to the overwhelming grief we all felt. The sympathy we get from others when we lose someone so valuable is a kind gesture, but its just not enough - it won't bring them back.
Today I no longer feel anger towards losing my brother so early in his life, i feel as though i am forever grateful to have had him in my life in the first place. I am able to appreciate everything about him, even though he wasn't on this earth for very long, he was a credit to everyone around him and I could not be happier that he was my only sibling - as I couldn't have wished for a better one.
So loss, it may be devastating and you may feel as though life is at a complete stand still, but people are right in the end when they say that 'life goes on'. Life has to go on, and my wish now is to make him proud of everything I do, as I know that he is watching over me somewhere.