some folk

Some folk are great to talk to, aren’t they?

It’s Christmas and there are a whole lot of parties to go. A whole lot of conversations to have. While shooting.the.breeze, chewing.the.fat, I’ve noticed:

the best people to chat to are the ones who actually listen.
Which I guess sounds obvious, but actually, really, sort of, isn’t.

The best conversations I’ve had over the last couple of weeks have been those where the person I was chatting to wasn’t looking around for more food or trying to think of something crazily witty to add or looking over my shoulder to see who might have just walked in.

They were conversations that weren’t, when I come to think about it, particularly interesting or clever and insightful or even very amusing.

They were just real. Both of us really there, really seeing each other, really listening.

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