Even though we live in the same city we hardly see each other ...

This is going to be a personal post, one that I have wanted to write for some time now.

So as I have perviously mention in another most, I moved to university this year and I am currently studying at Nottingham Trent University, but I'm not exactly living in this new city on my own. I'm a twin, and no before you think about it we don't have telepathic bond; we can't read each others minds or feel what each other are feeling that just old wives tales as far as I'm aware.

Being a twin, I've spent my whole life growing up with my best friend doing absolutely everything together; never really spending long period of time apart from each, whether it was learning to ride a bike or the first day of high school I've never done it alone, she always been that reassuring factor in my life I no she's never going to go any where.

Now this time last year I had made the decision not go to university the first time around, instead I stayed at home to do a foundation course, because to be honest I was so unpaired as to what my next step would be. The first couple of weeks that that she wasn't at home were hard and was the strangest feeling ever, I had gone from having her around 24/7 and being able to just walk the handful of steps across the landing to talk her, spending endless hours on her bed whether it was talking about everything and anything under the sun or even just sitting in silence; the thought of just knowing that we were never too far away from alway reassuring. So suddenly for all this to change, was quite a dramatic change in my life; it wasn't the first time we had truly been apart but it was the first time we hadn't been living together under the same roof or even in the same city, I had always knew that it would happen someday but nothing can ever prepare you for what it feels like.

But we made each other the promise, that no matter what we would still see each other as often as we could, now in the first two weeks this was hard so FaceTiming on a nightly basis just had to do, until I could physically get over to Nottingham and visit her in person but after 3 weeks everything changed and I was visiting her every other weekend practically, Notts became almost my second home I always felt really welcome when I stayed with her which made it so much easier for me because by getting to know her flat mates, I knew that she had friends and wasn't on her own; she was having a blast with her new found friend and I admit there were times when I thought that maybe we would drift away from each other now she had met new people, it was almost the green eyed monster in me coming out.

When the time came around for me to start considering which university I wanted be attend of course Trent was my first course (and this decision wasn't just based on the life night life), I didn't really have plan B or know what I would do if i didn't get in, I had this idea in my head that we could be reunited, I did want to have the "proper" stereotypical university experience of moving away from home but theres no harm doing this alongside your twin is there I mean we do everything else the same.

And Just look where I ended up, studying at NTU being now more than 10 minutes around the corner in a sense this could be described as ideal but something so occurred to me, well us ...

You would think yes this is perfect, knowing I have some there for me who has already gone through the first year experience; well yes this was ideal where most people have to move away from all of their family, I didn't have to. But we soon realised something that although we are right on each others doors steps, living in the same city, studying at the same university we don't actually see each other as much as you would think or as much as we would like which is strange, in fact we probably saw each other more the first year that she wasn't at home. This isn't because we've drifted apart in fact its probably the opposite we have become closer, I think realising that this I now what it would be like for the rest of lives are we go down are separate paths.

The main reason why we haven't really seen each other that much isn't anything personal, it more to do with are work loads we both have are own work to do and as much as we would rather go to TGIF, Bella Italia etc we aren't paying £9000 a year for nothing, although there have been more than one occasion where I feel like I have nee slightly pied off for her work but I never take this to heart. If we don't see each other we will just call each other, partially daily but most of the time I would rather see her face to face so theres nothing better than a twin date, especially if food is involved ( which is definitely the way to my heart) and 100% better than having to cook for myself, since my student cooking skills aren't the best and I'm clearly never going to be the next Gordan Ramsay.

Now me and my twin are far from identical in fact there isn't that much thats the same about us, we are complete opposite's. I'm a complete girly girly (well not that girly but compared to her I am) and she loves nothing more than spending a day outdoors but I think this is why we get on so well; I mean they do say opposites attract right (even though I didn't partially have a choice on who my twin would be) don't get we wrong we do fall out just like any other siblings and when we do fall out it can be quite bad, but it's normally no longer than 10 minutes until we are back to are normal selves.

Everyone always stereotypes twins as having such a close bond and it's true, it's something I feel not everyone will under stand, yes I'm not saying normal siblings don't have a close bond but we have shared every life experience together which does sound a little cheesy but it's true and said it at the start of this post but she's my best of friends, I know no matter what happens, what life throws are way she will always be there for me whether it's a shoulder to cry on, someone to hear my constantly life dilemers (petty as most of them may seem) or just sitting in silence, its the fact that I know I will always have her through the good and the bad the bond we have is unbreakable its for life, to be honest I wouldn't have it any other way, we are truly soul sisters.