Current mood:

tired

Define It: Conversation

Conversation

            A conversation is a series of reactions all spawned from a single phrase, word, image, idea, or some other incitement to speech between two or more parties. It is the fundamental form of communication through which living beings of all shapes and sizes grow to understand each individual’s quirks and habits along with their ways of thought and attitude. However, within the human race, there is a certain phenomenon that occurs in many conversations which render them all but useless for the purpose for which they were created. As humans have grown more and more complicated, making their lives more and more difficult with layers upon layers of values both moral and material, the factor of one’s ‘image’ has taken on an all important roll. And with that people have taken to using conversations not as a key to greater understanding but as a stepping stone towards promoting one’s own prowess and fame. As was stated in an article a friend of mine read recently, most people spend the majority of the time while someone else is speaking thinking not about what is being said but about what they themselves are going to say in return. In this manner they manage to completely overlook the fact that in order to actually converse one has to respond to what was previously said. Thus the act of speaking suddenly loses almost all of its previously glorious meaning for speech that is not heard might as well by wind blowing by the ears. It is, after all, the art of listening that really grants humanity the ability to grow.