"Only connect." - E.M. Forster
Few things get me as reliably juiced as conversational ping-pong. When did this most recently happen to you?
You feel heard even though the back-and-forth between you and the other person is rapid and nonstop. You bounce from subject to subject, but the conversation somehow remains focused. Your energy and attention never flag. You don't want it to end.
Sometimes I walk away from these one-on-one encounters with books to read, movies to watch (or re-watch), or music to listen to. More often, I de-brief the experience via writing; I desperately want to retain the buzz these moments of intense connection deliver and writing about them seems to help with that.
But even if no books, films, music, or writing spring from an instance of conversational ping-pong, one thing is guaranteed. I look forward to the next time.
Connection is everthing!
ReplyDeleteInes; I can recall at least one interaction you and I have had that started out about a book and soon became conversational ping-pong. Thanks for consistently supporting my blog for almost a decade. You're a mensch!
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