Trick or Trip?

"Woah so lucky!!"

"Better than striking 4 D!"

These are just some of the common responses a couple will get when they have a pair of twins. There is even a chinese idiom that means "happiness comes in pairs".It seems like almost everyone is in approval of doubles and pairs. While you have singles in Badminton, there are also doubles. Same goes for table-tennis and the list goes on.

Though it may all be happy and cheery in the first few days of the twins' arrival but many implications lurk beneath the joyous atmosphere. First comes the babies' identity. How to differentiate Dick from Dave? Then comes the babies' needs. Everything comes in pairs, not forgetting expenses on commodities. Good thing nature made up for it by bestowing 2 wonderful organs to every females.

And other problems start surfacing . When Dick cries, Dave fights for attention and soon it becomes worse than a moshpit. All that racket will continue into the twins' childhood.

Besides the problems faced by others, the twins themselves also suffer as they grow up. Dave will always be compared with Dick or vice versa. Being mistaken for each other will become an everyday encounter. And of course, the BGR problem especially if the twins are good-looking. Plain Jane may like Dick but may end up falling in love with Dave, thinking that they are the same person.

When i was young, i thought having twin brothers or sisters would be such a cool thing but it i later realised that i was wrong.

Having a "common face" was a thing to complain about already until i entered university when i discovered my "twin". We both looked so alike that within the first few weeks of school, i was mistaken for my "twin" at least 6 times. The scenario worsened especially when we were both in the same faculty and our circle of friends started to expand. Soon, I was able to react to such situtions so easily that people thought i was really my "twin" and i was poking fun at them.

The feeling of being mistaken for someone is not at all pleasant. In fact, its quite the opposite especially if its so frequent. Questions like "how can there be someone looking so much like me?" and "what have i done to deserve this?!" will always surface in my head. Nature must be playing a trick on us cos i'm sure my "twin" was experiencing the same fate as me--having the privilege to meet "friends" that he had not acquainted before.

After a few days of talking myself down the edge of the school's tallest building, i finally came to a reconcilation with my fate. And i figured that its not such a bad thing after all cos in the end, i get to know even more people while being mistaken for my "twin".

And after knowing my "twin", i realised that though we looked alike but our characters are very different and it is only our closer friends that are able to differentiate us. This only proves one thing. True friends are able to recognise both your looks and heart.

Some may think that Nature likes to play tricks on us. Some may think that it is Nature's blunder that such things can happen. Regardless of trick or trip, Nature seems to be pointing out the fact that what defines a person isn't just skin-deep but more than that.