Conversations, over coffee or sometimes over a smoke. In biting cold we stand, shifting on our feet way too many times to keep our legs from going numb. Searching and searing looks, wondering what lies beneath (do you really mean what you say?). Laughter; sometimes forced, sometimes genuine. I see, I hear, I feel....I reflect.
Sometimes I look back and wonder... what was that all about? Especially, when I revisit the memory of an interaction and still am not able to recollect the 'snippets' of conversation I've had with people. Then the realization dawns on me that it was perhaps me doing most of the talking and mere monosyllables were chimed by the one I was in a so called 'conversation' with. Meaningless, futile and inconsequential is what the whole exercise seems like at the end of the day. Do I need to spruce up my listening skills? or maybe such people are too trite to be taken notice of. But then, there are also conversations which seem sumptuos, wholesome, mentally stimulating...
Where are they?...the rational and the judicious beings.Have they been evacuated for the fear of their capitulating under monstrous pressure exerted by the senile and the witless? Or is there an array of such beings but I haven't had the fortune of getting acquainted with too many of those? This deprivation can be detrimental for the intellect and wit of those who are blessed with any...
I've had some scintillating snippets of conversations with people...although, I have to admit in all honesty that such occassions and the people who I shared these moments with can be counted on my fingertips.
I still anticipate and carry on having conversations over coffee...
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3 comments:
Brilliant start! I mean it!
I think you're going to make a fantastic writer, and the credit will go to ME ME ME!
I'm going to put up a link to your blog on my page so that you get more taffic... :)
Three things:
-Always cite examples (of interactions in this case) which help the reader get a mental picture.
-Make sure the language is simple, most people get intimidated by big words and hence lose interest.
-I HOPE I was/or will be part of one those conversations you can count on your fingertips... I really do.
You're destined for great things T, and this is only the beginning!
Love
TS
Excellent....this thought crosses my mind often... n then I feel I probably faked it...or the other person faked it... n neither of us was interested in the conversation...nice Work!!!
I shall echo ts... a truly fantastic start in terms of its sheer honesty and willingness to say what you want to say!
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