TWINS
★★★★★ (3 out of 5)
Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing twins.
One thing a lot of people don’t know about me is that I had a twin brother. I include myself in the group of people who don’t know this, because while I have no proof, it’s something I’ve always suspected.
My twin brother was probably just like me, except his personality was the opposite of mine. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from TV shows such as Double Trouble, Sister Sister, the Adventures of Pete and Pete, or Simon and Simon, it’s that even though twins may look like each other, their personalities are usually polar opposites. One twin will be composed and civil, while the other is wild and unpredictable.
I’m not exactly sure how he died. It would have been a while ago since I have no memory of him. He would have been a small child, and they tend to be careless. Twin children are especially careless, because there is an innate sense of, “It’s okay if something happens to me, because there’s still a back-up.” So probably my twin brother – we’ll call him Ted Jr. – was doing something stupid and got himself killed.
Twins feel strange, almost supernatural connections to each other, so when Ted Jr. died, I must have felt a great deal of pain. More than anything you can imagine because there’s an intensity with twins. Everything is double. And I would have felt this from far away, where I was doing something very safe, because again, my brother and I were opposites. He was careless and reckless while I am safe and cautionary.
Another thing about twins is how they pretend to be the other twin just to mess with people. Or to frame the other for murder. There is a slight chance that I murdered Ted Jr., and then claimed his identity. In which case that means I might be the original Ted Jr. and he was actually me. Gosh, now I’m really confused. Thank goodness we weren’t triplets.
Please join me next week when I’ll be reviewing the movie Twins.
