It's a funny thing conversations with friends; this on in particular is always an interesting experience. Of course we've known each other since grade school, even back then when the teacher first introduced us we had a clumsy dialogue and to be honest I hated ever moment of it. It was like being forced to play in the sandbox with your least favorite person and being told that it was important to be nice and share your toys. Well I didn't want to share my toys! The arts and crafts table was so much more interesting! But no...my teachers made us sit down and go through the labourus steps of being acquainted despite my frustrations and initial resistances.
Now we keep in touch regularly, though sometimes there are large gaps between our conversations. We chat here and there about normal every day things or something that strikes our mutual fancy. Most times when my friend calls the conversations are deep, thoughtful, though spontaneous. It's not always easy though, outside distractions can easily derail either of us while we talk and then it takes a great deal of 'Now where were we?' to get back on track. Sometimes we stumble and fall over each others thoughts; other times we can talk as smoothly and easily, almost like we could finish the others thoughts.
Good, I like being given credit for understanding the writer's point even if the writer makes the point implicitly rather than beating the reader over the head with it. In fact, by keeping it 'soft' the writer more deeply enlists the reader into figuring out how deeply the comparison works.
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