De one with Twins

Wish upon a star

People think I'm being absurd when I mention how it'd be like if I ever had a twin brother. More than usual, their replies synchronise with those of my family members', implying somewhere along the line "goodness, having you alone is enough. Another would be un-manageable." I pondered over this sometime in my life. Till date, it's amusing and regretful as I haven't got a clear reason to justify these comments. Couldn't bother asking or getting further feedbacks. Nevertheless, gut feeling tells me most probably the reasons were derived from my intolerable temper; particularly fussy/articulatedly-picky; extravagent spender!

Hmm.. *hand on my chin* I supposed there are so much interesting issues to talk about him. Let's start with the first crucial issue - his name. My chinese name was given by a Priest (bet you guess never know this right..). "Jason" was bestowed by Daddy. "Jimson" is my late younger brother's name. So here we see a similarity of having our christian/nickname (since we are not baptised or pleaged Christians) starting with "J" and ending with "son". The third generations of my family observes a practice of starting names with "J".

Considering the above, my twin brother might have been named either Jackson/Jenson. Don't you agree Jack and Jason kinda go along pretty well? The former is traditionally deviated from "John" which means "God is grecious". The latter means "Lord's salvation". How about Johnson - too overrated and commercialised. His chinese name.. let's see.. might be Yong Wen. That's the initial name my late Mummy wanted for me. She wanted me to excel academically. Guess my twin brother can do that.

Settled with the name, what kinda character and personality my twin brother would possess? There might be a chance that he could be out-going, outspoken yet well behaved and more intelligent compared to me - An opposite image of me although we might look exactly the same. These assumptions are drawn from my late brother who's somewhat like I've described above. Speaking of other qualitative characteristic like thriftiness, I suppose he might be superior. He better be! *Lightbulb blink* That might be a reason why the Priest gave me a name to suppress my spendthrift ignorance.

Similarities? Apart from looks (arha! that attributes two vain boys yes.. the angel and devil on my shoulders share the same view that our vanity will remain *smuggle*), I think we would be pretty competitive in whatever we do in life, being left-handed and our interests in art may be the same too! Arty-tacky is an attribution of Mummy's genes. Finally, discipline and kindness will remain too mainly due to the same family upbringing we received.

What about giving thought to how my twin brother will affect my life? I'd most likely have more accompany without having to fret over not having someone who better understand me and get along with without any conflicts in almost everything. I watched national geographic about this possible, sophisticated telepathic experiences between twins. It's amazing when one of them feels something, the other will have the same experience too. We could have shared so much things, ranging from clothings, toys, maybe some common interests. Or enjoy confusing others with our lookalike-ness. Hehe. Or better, the knowledge each of us attained!

I always have a silly thought that in the event I was in trouble with chinese examinations., my brother could sit the paper for me. Of course, it's foolish having considered both of us are most likely taking the same paper at the same time. We'd most probably attend the same school so we could have each other's accompany to counter the complex-inferiority on first day of school.

Also, I mean, think about it. Everything I spent on now would have been better and economically utilised through double usability, duo-value due to the existence of my twin brother. Haha.

Our future prospects might converge. We could have both studied accountancy, obtain CPA and establish a Firm together. Wuao. Pretty cool huh.

Most importantly, we would have each other's console, look out for each other through thick and thin. I find that nobody would understand me better than my twin brother. Moreover, family ties are strongest in times of departures. Having a twin brother would be a dream come true!