Being a twin is like growing up with your best friend
There’s always someone you can be weird with
I’m from Greece – where family is the most important thing in the world and you’re close with all 50 (at least) of your relatives. I’m one of three siblings in my family. I grew up with an older sister and my twin, Emmanuela. My twin sister and I are totally different people – we have different styles, eating habits and personalities. Even though we are not identical we have been doing everything together since day one. From going to the same kindergarten to attending the same college.
To everyone in my family we were “the girls.” We would rarely be identified as one person because we really weren’t – and we were fine with that. Now we are in college both trying to figure out who we are and what we want to do with our lives. I always know she will be there for me and she knows I will always be there for her. Even though we might not be “the girls” anymore we’re closer than we ever have been.
I make her do things with me even when she doesn’t want to
Like go to the gym when she doesn’t want to.
I make her try on clothes she doesn’t want to wear to see if they look good on her and she hates that. I’m lucky I know that if I can’t convince a friend to do everything with me, I always know I can drag my twin. After all she was born to do everything with me.
We grew up having the same friends and doing the same activities
I grew up doing everything with her – we were always in the same classes in high school, had the same group friends, same dance classes and were even on the same volleyball team.
I didn’t mind having the same friends but when I would go out without her, people would always ask where she was and thought it was weird that I went out alone.
We are very different people
Because we used to do a lot of the same activities we would always be compared to each other, but now that I’m older I realize that it doesn’t really matter. We don’t both have to be good at everything – she was a better volleyball player and better at math, but I was better at ballet and writing. Not being exactly the same at everything is what makes us unique.
She is the weird one and also pretty annoying because she can eat WHATEVER she wants and lose weight. Most of my snapchat stories are of her and her unhealthy eating habits.
Where as I am normal and have to eat foods like zucchini noodles to stay skinny.
Getting older we are starting to look the same
I don’t really see it, but other people do and it freaks them out.
When people tell me we look a like, I don’t agree with them because I don’t like to think of us as the same person. We look like sisters but I believe that we look completely different. When I post pictures like this, my friends and family freak out about how much we look a like. They can’t tell who is who.
We like to have fun!
The one thing I love doing with my sister is going out. We know how to have fun with each other and even during the day we always enjoy each others company.
I love knowing I’ll always have someone to be weird with.