I Love It
I love catching up with old friends. Ya know that marathon phone call that encompasses you current life (social, professional, personal, etc.), his or her current life, current politics (in some broad sense), current family lives, and just about everything? The key to this being an outstanding phone call is that you care what the other person is saying.
I find that as I get older (okay - that statement makes me sound about 80 - I'm not) I don't like to listen to people. It used to be interesting to hear about other people's lives. I use to be a butterfly at parties flitting from one person to the next and listening to them talk about their lives while also sharing about my own. Now I couldn't care less. If you aren't in my small circle of close friends, I don't give a damn. And I don't even want to try to seem interested. Maybe my tolerance for bullshit is lower? Or, maybe I just don't have the energy? Dunno. But I swear at some point in my life I actually enjoyed that sort of thing.
What brought this post on is last evening I had one of those great conversations with a very dear friend (a prof in MA). I was even left with a glimmer of hope that we may now keep up with one another on a more regular basis as he has promised (threatened?) to start a blog of his own. I generally think that blogs are completely self-serving items but on the other hand I want all of my friends to write one! I just hope this new blog development doesn't end our occasional (every ~6 mo) stellar phone calls.
I find that as I get older (okay - that statement makes me sound about 80 - I'm not) I don't like to listen to people. It used to be interesting to hear about other people's lives. I use to be a butterfly at parties flitting from one person to the next and listening to them talk about their lives while also sharing about my own. Now I couldn't care less. If you aren't in my small circle of close friends, I don't give a damn. And I don't even want to try to seem interested. Maybe my tolerance for bullshit is lower? Or, maybe I just don't have the energy? Dunno. But I swear at some point in my life I actually enjoyed that sort of thing.
What brought this post on is last evening I had one of those great conversations with a very dear friend (a prof in MA). I was even left with a glimmer of hope that we may now keep up with one another on a more regular basis as he has promised (threatened?) to start a blog of his own. I generally think that blogs are completely self-serving items but on the other hand I want all of my friends to write one! I just hope this new blog development doesn't end our occasional (every ~6 mo) stellar phone calls.
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