Someone says something I don’t remember saying and there’s an awkward moment where I’m caught off guard and struggling to figure out how to reply.
I feel them waiting for me to say something, to acknowledge what they are referring to. I want to blurt out that it wasn’t me they were talking to (or that it was me, but it wasn’t…) but instead I try to disguise my confusion, sometimes using humor or a question to deflect, buying time as I reach inside my brain and try to retrieve anything that will help me out.
I’m doing more than retrieve information, I’m trying to connect with the part of me that was there for that particular conversation.
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