Telephone Talk

"I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end."

I'm not the type to talk on the telephone, I've never really enjoyed it.

I'm the type that if she thinks she has the chance will walk away from the phone and come back later to pick up the conversation.

There is just so much you can't convey, and I'm the type who likes to convey everything just the way I want it.

The written word is a great way to achieve that, so is music. I think that's why I like those things so much.

Even talking in person, body actions, facial expressions, they explain so much. There are points in converstaions where saying nothing is better than saying something, and when talking on the telephone you can't really have those without alot of awkwardness.

Alot of people assume that texting is less personal, easier to lie with, and in some ways I can see where that comes from.

If you knew what you were doing, you could get away with alot using just the right words, but I would like to believe that most people aren't like that.

I would like to think that most people don't sit around planning out every word for it's specific result, but that is kind of wishful thinking since I do that myself sometimes.

People express alot in words, even when they don't mean to.

When you know the person, it's especially easy to understand what they are feeling through a text. With some people, their texts sound like them.

I don't know, maybe it's all in my head.

Isn't that how everything goes? It could just be you and your unique snowflake of an existance, or it could be fact. I guess we will never really know.

I mean when you think about it, excluding music, because that stands on it's own...

when people want to hear and understand a story, they typically look for something more than audio.

I think out of all the various media forms we have, the radio is one of the least popular. Most people just stick with their television sets and books.

It's probably just convenience. I mean, we can't watch TV, or read while we drive, so we tune in to a talk show concerning peoples love lives, because lord knows there's no good music on the radio anymore.

We talk on the phone because it is more convenient than having to go find that person, or travel the long distance that might exist between you.

Maybe I'm just weird. I see a love of phone talking all over the place.

My sister, Anna, stays up every night til three in the morning talking to her boyfriend Jim. My friend Justin says he talks to his friend Jenny on the phone every night before he goes to sleep. My mom wants to call me every week to talk, and poor Josiah, following all the teen magazine advice he had read, called me every day for the months we were dating.

I'm just not the type, I'd rather read a letter, or a text, or better yet make that distance to talk to you in person. That could involve a road trip, and those are always fun.

But once again with necessity.

If I havn't talked to that person in a long while, and they call, I tolerate it for awhile at least, but after that while I start to get antsy and would love more than anything to get away.

I don't know, maybe I just havn't found the right person to talk to in this ever-so-popular form of communication.

Who knows, maybe someday someone will turn me onto it.
That would be the day.