Yellow and Green

Yellow comes into the room and takes a seat. She is a demure, sweet, and nice girl. On a side note, she can also speak impeccable Mandarin. Class begins, and she sits there studiously taking down notes. Yellow questions a point made by the teacher, but decides to just keep her opinion to herself, preferring instead to settle comfortably into the background and just giggle.

Green comes into class late, and struts towards her seat beside Yellow purposefully, as if she had a reason to be late. Green is Yellow’s identical twin sister, born merely a minute apart. Barely 5 minutes after she joins the class, she interrupts: “ Excuse me, I think that the point that you just made implicitly assumes that….”

Yellow was impressed. This was the exact point that she saw just now, but was unable to express as succinctly into a sentence as her twin did.

The bell rings. Yellow headed to the washroom with her group of friends. Their favourite activity in school is going to the washroom together to fill up their water bottles. I think the mere act of filling up a plastic flask with like- minded friends around her brings her immeasurable joy.

Obviously Green could not be bothered with menial tasks like filling up a water bottle. She has greater tasks to fulfill, deeper topics to ponder over. And so she leaves, unable to comprehend how her twin can bear being around her classmates.

Such is the difference between Yellow and Green. A pair of identical twins, thrust into 2 extremely distinct systems.