BEING  A  TWIN

We are twins - fraternal twins. As the name implies we are not identical. Let me start off by saying being a twin is the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me.. We are double the trouble.. we are double the joy. We shared everything from the womb onwards. We go to school together. We are in the same classes. We do the same activities and we share the same friends.

My twin sister is truly and undoubtedly my best friend. I can tell her anything and she too can, no matter how personal the story may be. In most cases, we witness the same thing and most probably we react in the same way.This has become as part of my identity.

When I tell people that I am a twin the first thing they usually say are 'let me see a picture of her'. I then proceed to show them my twin sister and they seem to be slightly disappointed because people tend to link twins with being strictly identical.

And begins the flow of questions: 'who came out first?', 'Do you guys fight?', 'Do you have the same birthday?', ... We do also get some weird questions like 'If you get fever will your twin also catch fever immediately?', 'Can you read each others mind?'... How do one going to answer such questions? Sometimes it's bit annoying. But we very much enjoys it.

Everyone are curious to know about their childhood stories from their parents. I too have the same curiousity to know how my parents brought up me and my sister together. When I ask my mother about this, she always tell me with a smile not to make her remember those days of hardship... If one of twins get sick, infect the other one as soon as possible.It is inevitable. In our case, we  both had contrasting nature in sleeping.I used to sleep at day time and my sister at night. But the fact is that the only person who don't have sleep is my mother as we two sleep on shift basis.

You may think that changing diaper for two babies requires the same amount of time as changing the diaper of one baby,times two. But it is not like that. It actually requires more than twice the effort. Because while you are changing one baby's diaper , you will simultaneously have to keep the other baby occupied so she will not steal the clean diaper you are about to put on or the one you just have removed.

When I ask my mother more,she says that literally she don't remember most of the first six months because of tiredness. If given the chance, she would have slept anywhere;on the floor, in a dining room chair or even by standing up.

Yes, I know eventhough my parents tell all this as funny and silly.. those stories are really horrors of raising twins...

                                                            

APARNA . P . S

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