I saw twins on bikes today. I was walking along and suddenly I see these two guys, who looked pretty similar. They were dressed differently, but their hair and glasses were the same and on inspection so were their faces. At first I did the proverbial double check like people do in movies. You stare at the first guy, then at the second guy and then in complete disbelief you stare at the first guy again until you're sure that your eyes aren't deceiving you. And then I thought it was pretty weird to see two guys in their late twenties, who didn't realize that when you look exactly the same already it's pretty dorky to have the same glasses and hair.

And then I remembered a guy from school, who didn't like twins. My friend thought twins were silly and stupid. I'm not sure why, but I think he just disapproved of the concept of having two people look exactly the same. Also, there are all the stories about how they have a special connection, where they can feel each others pain and things like that (On an unrelated note I wasn't quite sure, if it was others, other's, or others' in that last sentence. Normally, I'll do a Google search and correct a misspelling based on the number of returns, but in this case that doesn't really help, so apologies in advance if I should have added an apostrophe or something). I think there was an influx of twins at the time and 90210 was huge, so maybe that's what spawned these comments.

So this one time we're hanging out at the cinema and we see twins and he goes into his bit about how they're stupid. And he asks me if I know what's worse than twins? "Triplets?", I quipped. "Obviously", he replied, but he was actually thinking of twins, who dress alike.
And I have to agree with that. Now matter how adorable infants, who are dressed alike look I don't think it's particularly healthy (not to mention cool) to make children, who already look exactly alike look even more exactly alike. It's like depriving them of a personality to just stick them in the same red jacket and have people go Ahhh... at them all the time. How hard is it to buy a blue and a red jacket, so at least people have a shot at telling them apart?

If I ever had twins I think I'd do a lot to make them look different and support them if one wanted to play hockey and the other wanted to play piano. I wouldn't go as far as creating a good and an evil twin like they do on soaps (one blond and the other with black hair perhaps. One has his own room, while the other lives in the basement trying to create his own language and so on), but I would at least try to have them develop individually like normal siblings do. And I would never drag them to this. Or this.