X is for Xerox
Xerox! You would think I am asking or telling you to make a copy of something. No I am not.
That`s my nick name. I am Xerox.
Yea that`s what everyone in my colony calls me. I have a twin sister you see. Tapur. We are 13 now. Identical twins. Only difference is that she is full 4 minutes 22 seconds older than me.Yet I am the Xerox and she`s the Original.
Ma is the only one who can tell us apart. Baba calls us Tapur-Tupur. For him we are one. But Ma claims she sees us as two different girls. Yet she buys the same clothes, same shoes, same hair clips, same hair-bands, same socks for us. Identical. Only difference is the colour. It is always pink or red for Tapur. I get yellow or blue or any other available colour. Even our school bags, water-bottles, tiffin-boxes, pencil-boxes, swimming gears are identical. Everything is identical.
Yet I am labelled Xerox! Why is Tapur Original?
Why ?
Xerox! You would think I am asking or telling you to make a copy of something. No I am not.
That`s my nick name. I am Xerox.
Yea that`s what everyone in my colony calls me. I have a twin sister you see. Tapur. We are 13 now. Identical twins. Only difference is that she is full 4 minutes 22 seconds older than me.Yet I am the Xerox and she`s the Original.
Ma is the only one who can tell us apart. Baba calls us Tapur-Tupur. For him we are one. But Ma claims she sees us as two different girls. Yet she buys the same clothes, same shoes, same hair clips, same hair-bands, same socks for us. Identical. Only difference is the colour. It is always pink or red for Tapur. I get yellow or blue or any other available colour. Even our school bags, water-bottles, tiffin-boxes, pencil-boxes, swimming gears are identical. Everything is identical.
Yet I am labelled Xerox! Why is Tapur Original?
Why ?
Tapur-Tapur: I've got an earworm stuck in my head now---remember the song? Bishti pade...tapur--tupur?
ReplyDeleteIs timing everything?
It would be interesting to hear Tapur’s side of the story! Might be different from what Tupur is portraying!
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Why indeed. What people start in fun ends up doing more damage than they can ever understand.
ReplyDeleteEven the silliest of comments can have a lasting effect.
ReplyDeleteI think the story is always different from the perspective of the other. And with siblings its always like that. Nonetheless I hear Tupur.
ReplyDelete@ Arti...yeah I remember it...yes many times it is
ReplyDelete@ Noor Maybe one day you will hear Tapur
@ Srivalli..Yes,,It can be really painful
@ Shweta Yes they do
@ Sonia...it is always about one`s perspective? What is reality but perception ? Yea true of all siblings
I think being identified as one has more challenges. Although being called Xerox is a little mean!! No wonder she feels bad..
ReplyDeleteHaha nice little sibling fight... I am sure Tapur has a story too.. :)
ReplyDelete@ Nisha I find that very common with twins..people think its cute and fail to see them as individuals
ReplyDelete@ Ira I am sure she does
We have to change our mindsets, each one is an original and that's how it is in Nature, all roses yet each one different!
ReplyDeleteExactly..unfortunately many times we fail to do so..
ReplyDeleteDon't worry, sometimes, the Xerox is more original!
ReplyDelete@Pradeep..you are right :-)
ReplyDeleteThese days one always has to provide a Xerox copy.. nothing moves without it.. Xerox is indispensable!
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