Your question caught me as I've always had a difficult relationship with my older brother and family.
I always thought to myself would being an only child be better than having a brother or a sister, also depending on how many siblings you have? I don't want this to turn into a sob story. I always assumed in my head that a sibling would be someone who would be your best friend because your sibling is the only person, regardless of a friend, who goes through the same things you do being the children of your parents.
For the longest time when I was younger, I always looked up to my brother because he got good grades at school, he went into a successful job, receive various awards, and quite frankly, does have an incredible resume. I because of this, was always compared to my brother because he set an incredibly high bar, but I don't really believe in conclusion that I could ever reach that bar, especially because I was a different type of person.
I on the other hand was more the rebel, the person that made many many mistakes, various issues, mentally, physically, and half of that is my own fault, half of that, it's just because that was the card I was dealt with in life.
After he went to university and ended up being in a good successful job, I found that he drifted away from me more and more as the years went on, and this in stilled, a huge anger in me, as I was made to feel that I was less than him and wasn't on the same level as him. To cut a long story short we don't speak anymore, he hasn't contacted me when I've gone into hospital for example or was in trouble with the law, when he got married, he thanked our parents in his speech, but completely, and utterly ignored me, and there was no mention of myself. There are many other things, but I can't remember at this time.
I'm not expecting various people to care about you all the time, but you do think when you have relationship with people that one person at least would reach out to at least see if you were okay, for example when I mentioned about the hospital stint. As much as this is a situation that could be seen as me feeling bad about myself, because of how somebody else has made me feel, what it actually did was teach me a very valuable lesson.
Everyone of course has different relationships with siblings depending on their personalities but don't allow anybody whether it be friends or even family members make you feel bad about yourself because they're in a better position than you are. You are a stronger person because you go through hardships more frequently, as you know how to deal with future setbacks, whereas people who sail through life will not be able to handle any setbacks because they're not used to it.
What situations like this teach you is even if you have barely any belief in yourself, still take that one percent belief, don't be so trusting and realise not in a negative way, but the only person you can truly trust is yourself the label of family shouldn't excuse people from their behaviour.
poor bugger. He loved beating me a bit too much though 
