Either you have it or you don’t. It’s like the ability to step in front of a crowd and speak comfortably. For some, the latter task isn’t a task at all. Others would view that scenario as a nightmare come to life.

But since we all converse, we all formulate and pass off our ideas, thoughts, opinions or just general statements of fact or fiction to others and recieve back in return.

But when you’re in the midst of a conversation, can you tell the underlying messages and power plays are being made? This can be told mostly through body language, but that is still something different.

What I’m thinking about would be the way people actually talk. Noticing how someone will set up a story with the same wedge to segue in. How their patterns of deferment and questions will help move things along and prevent stalls.

This conversation is stalling due to the number of words needed to make a point, a point that is both within and outside the conversation. So is it part of it at all? Or is it just fun to play with known unknowns?

I’m playing with a sense of time, deciding whether it ends at midnight or when the night is over. Within that decision lies another, one that is best taken off the table before too much time is spent thinking about it and that’s the truth.