I have a TWIN brother, but we are completely DIFFERENT.

Every time I tell people that I have a twin brother they look at me if I just said something unbelievable. “You have a twin? Do you look alike? Let me see a picture, immediately! ” Uhm, actually we don’t look alike, sometimes when people see us together they think we look more like cousins rather than brothers. And it’s true, we looked alike when we were kids. Imagine: two little boys with the same clothes but different color of t-shirts, so that people could distinguish us and also realize we were twins; same haircut because my mom thought it was cute, and besides, what kind of haircut do you think a kid can get anyways?

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The Arm and the Brain

But time passed by and we started to grow apart and doing our own things, with our bodies but also with our free time. I started having interests that were completely different from his, or from any other guy of my age really. I am Italian and I do not like soccer. Say what?! That’s right, sports are not my thing. I do run, I did work out for a few years, but that’s all. I just want my body to be in the best shape it can be, but do not ask me to work out with you every morning because it ain’t happening. Instead, he likes sports, is not a fan of school and likes stuff he does by hand (like lifting heavy stuff, driving and so on). I work mostly on my laptop, I have social media pages to keep up to date, I study abroad, love languages and used to play the guitar. Let’s say he is more like the arm and I am the brain, yeah?

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International VS Local

Seriously though, I went on exchange during high school. Left everything behind and lived my own life at the age of sixteen/seventeen. I then came back to Milan, graduated from high school and moved abroad again where I started studying and eventually working to sustain myself. I will soon go on exchange again through the Erasmus program, spend a semester in the UK and hopefully will find an internship elsewhere and move, again. But he is home, has always been home and will probably spend his entire life at home (meaning Milan, not at my parents’, lol). He thinks he is not good with English, or school in general, but I think it is not true, he just needs a little push from time to time and a reminder that if people do things it means that he is also capable, if he wants to do them.

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Twin communication

Despite the fact that we like different things and we don't look alike, we are still twins. Grew in our mother's stomach, born the same day, and pretty much at the same time. Sometimes people ask me "Is it true that twin brothers get each other by simply looking at one another? " meaning, do we twin brothers have to speak in order to explain things, or do we actually communicate through our minds? My answer was "no, we don't really do that" until something happened. One day, while I was on exchange, I felt something in my stomach. It was hurting. I didn't really know why or what was causing it. Then a few hours later my mom texted me saying that my brother was at the hospital and that he was going to have his appendix removed. I don't know if that was a sign, or if I just had something bad to eat or my hip bumped into something just the same day as my brother's surgery, but I like to believe that it was destiny and that I can feel if my brother is in pain.

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Things in common

As hard as it can be to believe it, we do have things in common after all, like:

• we are quite shy but it we really want something we make it happen, somehow;
• our favorite animals are dogs (maybe this is because we have had a dog since we were six, but whatever);
• we are nice to one another, meaning that if one of us needs a favor from the other we usually help (but before we joke around and ask the other not to bother ahaha).

- Cristian

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