The Introvert and the Extrovert

Camille and Nikko are sister and brother. Camille is 15 years old while Nikko is 14. Camille has lots of extracurricular activities. She trains for the MOCC because she wants to be an officer when she reaches fourth year high. She's a member of the theater guild, the book lovers club, the water color artists group, and a feature writer for the school paper. She has lots of friends-- girls and boys-- even in the other sections. Nikko, on the other hand, would rather focus on his studies. He reads a lot. He writes powerful essays and editorials for the school paper.. He is independent and prefers to be alone, although classmates would always invite him to be leader or member of their teams each time their teachers assign them with group projects, because he is very intelligent and responsible.

On Sundays, during lazy hours, they would turn to one another for lack of better things to do.

"How do you survive? Aren't you bored to death?," Camille would asked her brother with mocked sarcasm.

The latter would answer, mimicking her tone, "Are you still alive? Look at yourself, you're like a roller coaster that wouldn't stop!"

This kind of conversation would usually lead Camille and Nikko into throwing pillows and running around the house, each one wanting to pull each other's shirt. When already exhausted or scolded by their mom for their noise, they would silently raced towards the fridge for a cold drink.

Seriously, Camille would invite her brother to join the theater guild. "You will enjoy it, I'm sure," she would often tell Nikko.

"What's fun about make-believe and imitation?," Nikko would ask. "Aren't you just fooling yourselves?"

"No. You come to understand life's situations better. At the acting workshops, you intellectualize your emotions and passions...!"

"Wow, really! I can also do that, and much better still-- with reading."

"Reading is such a lonely activity."

"Very fulfilling, I tell you. You're too physical."

"You're too cerebral."

"I feel lonely in a crowd…"

"Come on, Nikko…"

"Yes. Honest. The crowd exhausts me. I am more energized when alone."

"Me, I need people around me. It's sad to be alone. I feel very much alive when interacting with people," declared Camille.

"Then, good for you. We're different. Stop worrying about me being bored or lonely or what, I'm really fine, you know. I'm an introvert. That's my nature."

"And I'm an extrovert, yeah. Hello, glad to meet you."

"Well, hi, roller coaster, glad to meet you, too."

"There you go again!" and brother and sister would again race around the house and bump into furniture and decors which again would provoke their mother's high-decibel shrieks.