aaaaaaaaaaaa (greycellz) wrote, @ 2003-08-06 11:21:00

When introverts talk
Guess what happens when introverts talk? It happens often to me when I call up my very good friend U in LA. Goes something like this:
I: Hello !
U: Hi
I: Guess who's here
U: Yaar thoda aur bol to maloom padega
(Point to note - I am probably the only friend who calls him and asks him to guess and that happens everytime and still he takes his own time to try to identify me)
I: mumble mumble
U: Oh! X ?
I: Nahi yaar ek aur guess..
U: Y ?
I: Nope, it's A. :(
U: Arre !!
I: Aur kya chal raha hai ?
U: Bas theek
I: Anything new ?
U: Nothing yaar
10 seconds of continental static
U: How about you ?
I: Bas mera bhi theek chal raha hai
U: Hmm..
I: Hmm..
I: Aur sunao
U: Kuch naya nahi hai yaar
I: Suna bhai ka engagement ho gaya ?
U: Haan yaar last week hua
I: Achcha Achcha
U: Haan
I: Aur koi nayi khabar ? Job search kaisi chal rahi hai ?
U: Kuch nahi yaar, general chal raha hai
I: Hmm
U: Haan
20 seconds of intercontinental static
I: Aur aaj ka kya program hai ?
U: Kuch nahi yaar
I: Oh! Achcha Achcha
U: Hmm
I: Baki sab kaisa ?
U: Bas theek
I: Hmm
I: Uncle Aunty kaise hain ?
U: Theek thaak
I: Hmm
U: Hmm
I: Hmm
U: Hummmm
I: Aur batao
U: Bas chal raha hai yaar, tum sunao
I: Mera bhi chal raha hai
U: Hmm
I: Hummmmm
I: Chalo fir baat karte hain
U: ok
I: ok bye !
U: bye

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The case is even worse in case of family on my Father's side. My dad and my uncle are the deadliest of introverts. Imagine meeting your brother after 2 years and what do you have to say ?
Nothing!
They'd sit in 2 different corners of the room, searching for words to talk.
Each one diving deep into a chasm of ideas to look for topics to talk about.
Suddenly there would be a stacatto burst of a few words on a topic and then a silent mutual consonance.
Sometimes I really wondered if they had telepathic abilities and that they just communicated in muteness!

When young, I used to laugh at such a scenario !
Not anymore though.

Everytime after talking to my friend U, I realize the eloquence of muteness : how important it is to listen for thoughts in silence rather than words that ring hollow.
Now I realize what my dad and uncle used to do.
Now I know when introverts talk.

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