Well, that was fine with me. I suck at small talk.
But it got me thinking.
In the fast pace life we live a lot of our conversations are superficial and while we may see someone everyday we may not even really know them. What is their opinion about current affairs, religion, politics, the food that they are eating? Instead we get, "hi", "fine", "cool", "chilled", "I dunno", "whatever", "hmmm", "umm" "sigh", which all means what exactly?
I have said this to my friends before, that the days I have the deepest conversations are the days I go to bed feeling like I have achieved something.
Now this whole 'deep' conversation is not easy, believe me. One: you have to know what topic will get the best conversation flowing and then you have to have a few grains of knowledge to rub together or at least be able to fake it or things could get very awkward very quickly (cue the cricket squeaking).
Being able to talk to people opens up our world to experiences and knowledge that we would otherwise be oblivious to. Stories from the past, interesting facts, ideas, experiments, philosophical theories and ways of thinking that are completely different from ours.
I'll try set your mind at ease, a conversation takes two or more people (unless...nevermind) so you are never alone, and people around you are great sounding boards for ideas that you may think are completely crazy. We just have to be brave enough to bring up the topic.
This is one of those times that I have to take my own advice. As someone who can't even phone in a pizza order, due to an unnatural fear of talking to strangers on the phone, I sometimes find it difficult to maintain conversation with strangers in person. But (and this is me attempting to be deep) maybe our first conversations are the start of the deep ones. They all have to start somewhere.
Ok I'm done rambling about talking and now I'm going to get me some human contact. Carry on.
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