My Better Half

Don’t you just love the ‘my better half’ excuse? If you have a better half, then that must mean your other half is worse. Does that mean when you are having a bad day you can just blame it on ‘my worse half’? Oh sorry, that wasn’t me who just yelled at you, that was my worse half.

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When people usually use the term ‘my better half’ they are talking about their significant other. I never have understood this. If they are your significant other, they aren’t half of you, the would be ‘my better whole’, because they are a whole other person. I know metaphorically they are talking about them ‘completing’ you but still. You are still one person, and they are a whole other person, therefore, ‘my better whole’.

Then there are always the identical twins. I always thought what it would be like to be an identical twin. I used to think I would like it beacuse you would be such great friends, but really, you don’t need to be an identical twin to be best friends with your siblings, that can happen even if you don’t look the same. In fact, if I had an identical twin, I would probably drive myself crazy having to compare myself all the time. Who looks better, who is wearing a better outfit, who’s hair is nicer tonight, which one of us did our make up better. Wow that was exhausting just even thinking about.

As twins, you wouldn’t necesarily label your twin ‘the better half’ but you would try to blame your mistakes on them. You always see that in tv shows and movies, I wonder if it actualyl has ever worked in real life.