Twins

There is a pair of twins, identical twins. They study in the same school. Same class. They share their room, their meals, their games, their homework. They have the same teachers, same subjects. They share the same level of brains and intellect. However, one of them is extremely egoistic and lazy. On the other hand, the other twin is extremely humble and down to earth.

The lazy egoistic kid does not like working, he is usually too engrossed in finding short cuts. Despite everyone telling him to follow the steps of his twin decent brother, his big fat ego does not allow him to seek help. Hence, he avoids doing anything near to what his twin does.

One day, teacher gives them both an assignment. An assignment that needs to be completed within an hour. The assignment requires them to think and write. Given the laziness of the little kid and the time pressure, he decides to gulp down his ego and copy his brother's work. He realizes that his brother must have worked really hard on the assignment. So he waits till his brother finishes his work and leaves the class to play. The egoistic lazy kid then goes to his desk, picks up his brother's notebook, copies his assignment, silently keeps it back at his desk and goes back to his own table happily. The work done so smoothly, so naturally.

The teacher comes in, checks their notebook and for the first time, is simply impressed by the kind of work produced by the lazy kid. She smiles, gives them both full marks and leaves.

For every assignment after that day, the process is repeated. For every assignment, the lazy egoistic kid finds a way to copy his brother and earn a good grade. Strangely, he notices that the teacher never catches him. Slowly and gradually, his ego starts to melt, he starts to pro actively and openly seek his brother's work. He starts copying his steps. He starts being him.

The moment the little one's ego disappears, a pattern of beautiful identical work begins appearing. He realizes how unnecessarily tough and difficult it is to defend his ego and stance. And how much easier it is to just let be, copy and reflect his brother's work.

That good twin lies within us. We are born with good twin as our soul. Forever humble, embedded with a compass of always doing and knowing the right.
And that egoistic kid is our own self constructed boundary outside. Which distances us from our own good twin within us.

And they only become true identical twins once the egoistic kid gives up his ego and starts following the steps of the Soul.