Do your conversations have meaning? Like, real meaning? Or do you just talk for the sake of talking? The thing is that we’ve all done a bit of both to a greater or lesser degree.
We’ll have meaningful conversations when the situation calls for it. When it doesn’t, we’ll talk just to fill the empty air seemingly.
We, Westerners, are masters at filling the vacuity of quiet space. In fact, we’ve invented a term for not doing so – “uncomfortable silence.” This is too bad because we can often learn more about someone else – and about ourselves – if we could somehow embrace the silence rather than shun it.
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