Say Something!!
When I was a kid I had this great shirt that showed this crowd of people walking and one head stuck out way above the others and said “SAY SOMETHING!”. We live in the age of information which like it or not depends heavily on the written and spoken word. More and more it is going towards video and quite frankly if you don’t have something to say you are going to be missed! Like many of us I frequently find myself reconnecting with people on Facebook and other sites, but most of the “reconnecting” happens on Facebook. I was shocked and amazed in one case to find that one person just didn’t have anything to say. Clearly the person had no interest in me, didn’t even so much as ask what had been going on in my life since the age of 16, now almost 40. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t expect everybody to be so consumed with wonder about my life, but you’d figure after I’d asked, the basics would be forthcoming, right? So what have you been up to?… I got nothing. So then I said , OK maybe this person really just has no interest in me. Now I was really curious because it didn’t make sense. I knew this girl as a vibrant, happy, giddy, energetic kid and everything on the surface now seemed to suggest the same. Then I saw her wall posts. The things people posted and her responses. It was like a wall full of those awkward moments when one person is desperately trying to stimulate conversation and the other is giving short answers seemingly completely uninterested in the conversation.
My thoughts immediately turned to my wife. How grateful I am to have found an extremely intelligent woman HIGHLY capable of carrying on a conversation and actually interested in it. To be interested in people and life is to be engaged in it. This is how we participate in life. Otherwise you are just a spectator. Or you are so consumed with self that it doesn’t even occur to you to become or even pretend to be interested in others. What a boring person that makes for. It makes a person interesting when they themselves are interested. Being beautiful and talented is fucking boring when you are uninterested and seemingly apathetic. Sorry I had to get that out 
I am picking on one person because of recent events, but the truth is I see this all the time. Maybe it’s me but it seems so difficult to get people to engage, and then when many do they just don’t have anything of any real substance to say! Show me that you actually spent 1 minute thinking about what you say before you say it by getting specific and not just offering generic statements.
OK I think I have to go stick a knife in my chest to make sure I am still alive! Just kidding!
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