doublespeedandromeda:

Just read a blog that is ordinary in every sense of the word - just blogs about each day, from a regular person. Nothing special.

But a few things struck me.

It was really well written (maybe because a teacher wrote it? but anyway) and it seemed quite honest and I think it could have easily clicked as a diary entry

Having spent the past week driving a good 1500 kilometres, and spending countless hours on the road watching the white lane stripes whiz by the windshield, has (needless to say) given me a lot of thinking time.

1. I really get fed up if people don’t listen to me.

Despite it happening on odd occasions here and there, I find it most frequently happens with my dad. I think it explains the lack of a relationship I share with my parents because I don’t really think we have anything of interest in common so I rarely bother bringing anything up to start a conversation. Passing comments to spark one go un-addressed, so it’s not exactly encouraging to continue trying

2. Either people don’t listen - or they don’t understand what I say and just choose to ignore it.

Or, continue on their own tangent of thoughts - which is fine - but I think I would prefer it if someone stopped and asked “wait, what did you say?” instead of skipping over it with a “yeah, haha, kk” in the most simplest, blandest frame of words possible, devoid of any thought or personal input what-so-ever.

3. Fake interest really does tick me off.

I’ll clean this up because what I’ve said is not very clear - “Fake Interest” is talking in a manner that exhibits you to be very engaged in conversation, but in reality, you are actually very disconnected with the discussion taking place.

I think I’ve said this too many times, but with some time on my hands I actually drew a flow chart 2 weeks ago. Can you believe that? As if it was an algorithm to be plotted and solved. But the two conclusions (nevertheless) were: People are  genuinely happy with how they talk to others in this way and are oblivious to what they’re doing, or they’re aware of it are happy enough to talk nothings with someone else who is equally happy with receiving it.

This could go on for a while so I’ll end here.

Yay, text posts are my favourite :) Even though it’s five am on Christmas day I’m going to go ahead and put my two cents in. I think real problem, for me at least, is that people constantly are talking over one another. I mean are we really that vain that we can’t stop and listen to what the other person is saying? We have conversations to share and explore experiences, stories, and knowledge. Whatever you have to say is not more important than what the next person has to say, so don’t act like it is. Accept it and digest it, do not try to one up each. Listen with the same rapt you would want.

Oh oh and “they’re aware of it are happy enough to talk nothings with someone else who is equally happy with receiving it” :| I do not understand the point of this (enlighten me?), the only scenario I can see this happening in is a conversation neither participant particularly wants to be in, they are inevitable, but they usually end as fast as they can possibly end.