I've decided there are mostly two kinds of people in the world. There are your talkers, and there are your writers.
Hubby and I are both writers, while his big brother and his wife are both talkers. They talk and talk and talk, about every little thing under the sun, but not us! Our relationship was fairly stagnant the first year and a half. There were none of those all-night-gab-fests, and telephone conversations were brief and to-the-point, sometimes bordering on awkward. Plus, there was a good bit of miscommunication, with each of us just guessing what the other was thinking and feeling. It wasn't until he graduated, moved away, and started sending me letters, that we
really got to know each other, and things finally got serious.
I got to thinkin' about this when I noticed the way my friends and I communicate, or
not, these days. The talkers are all phone-people, while the writers love e-mail. I have a smart phone, as you can see above, but the only time I give it a thought is when it's making such a ruckus that it can't be ignored. Then I make every effort to get out of the conversation as quickly as possible. I much prefer e-mail, which gives me the opportunity to think about what I want to say and, thankfully, delete that which, upon deliberation, might be better left
un-said. When I feel pressured to say something,
anything, just to fill the lull in conversation? Well, there's just no telling
what inanity will pop out of my mouth!
Many of my favorite people, however, are talkers, and most definitely,
phone people. They keep their phones with them constantly -- not buried in their purses like me, but in their
hands. All calls seem urgent to them, but they can go several days without checking or responding to their e-mails. Sometimes, I'm afraid, we made each other a bit nuts. Finally I realized that, what we had here was a failure to communicate, and what we
needed was some kind of compromise.
Which is why I finally learned how to text-message!
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