Talking to someone and then realizing that they are not walking beside you anymore…

I’ve been known to have full-blown conversations with myself from time to time. I talk continuously when I am walking with someone, and I rarely look at them. So when I am at the mall or a theme park or something and the person I am talking to walks away, I hardly notice…

The worst time for this to happen is when I get really upset and then I just think that the person I am walking with doesn’t care, or doesn’t know what to say. You know that feeling in the pit of your stomach when you say something way out of line over the phone and then the person on the other end doesn’t respond? and then you find out like two minutes later that they fell asleep? That’s what it’s like!

Sometimes I do this to my friends…I’ll wait until they get knee-deep in a crazy conversation and then walk away and try to see how long it takes them to notice (I’ve been left before…).

So how much of the talking that we do is actually meant to be listened to? 

It seems like everyone just keeps talking, even if no one is listening…