I really hate how people force conversation on each other; they talk for the sake of talking. It's painful to listen to. I wish more people were able to simply enjoy silence with one another. You don't always need to be saying something.
This is a thought, among many, I had the other night. We speak because we're socially
conditioned to
need to speak. What makes a silence awkward? It doesn't
have to be awkward, but people insist that if two people are sitting in complete silence, it must be awkward. It's only as awkward as the individuals make it. If there is some sort of unresolved matter between two people, and the silence is being forced by one or both people, then OK, fine. Awkward. Sure. But just because their is nothing else to talk about? Blah.
In the same string of consciousness, individualism does not exist; not in this society at least. There is just eccentricity.
