Making Conversation…

“George Costanza with his brilliant idea.”

I was watching Seinfeld (The Pitch, The Ticket s04e03) in which, George Castanza comes up with this seemingly ridiculous idea about a TV series about nothing.

All the show would be was about the talking and conversations in real life. And that is exactly what the writers of Seinfeld did. They created a show about nothing but the day-to-day conversations, the daily activities and the mundane melodrama but with a tinge of humour and thus created one of the greatest sit-coms ever made.

I like the way the people in the show talk to each other, especially George. He says stuff that comes to his mind on the spot. If he thinks about something weird, he says it. His character in the show is the most comic one, according to me of course, because he is quite frank but only to his closest friends.

What the show reminds me of is the brief conversations that I have with my friends, with strangers, with acquaintances, with FB buddies, fellow bloggers and so on. The best part of it all is the variance in the maturity level while interacting with different people.

And it depends upon the type of people you are with. If it is with your close friend (Or BFFs for girls/women, it’s really mind boggling how you call someone that. Especially when you use it in the phrase “She was my BFF in school/high school/college”… I guess I wandered a bit off-topic there.) Where was I? Oh yeah… If you are with your close friends, you can act as immature and stupid as you want. Because you know, that nobody is judging you. But at the same time you cannot have serious heart pouring discussions with your best friend. I don’t know about girls, but I can guarantee you this, two guys cannot at any point of time in their life, talk to each other about their problems. Exceptions of course, if you had more than your usual amount of vodka (or whatever is your poison), and/or if you are homosexual (I don’t really know much about them either.). And that is where a girl comes in. I don’t know what a girl does to you, whether she hypnotizes you or something, but you talk to a girl/woman long enough, you end up telling her the deepest and darkest of secrets. It’s even quicker if you really like her.

But the best kinds of conversations I had, personally, are with total strangers. People I met online, Facebook friends-of-friends, people I know I’m never going to meet personally, unless of course the powers that be, decides otherwise. It is these people I disturb and annoy with my ramblings and I could just go on and on about the things I feel about certain things

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The major advantage with talking to strangers is that you try hard enough to make your point. When it comes to friends, they know how far you are willing to go on every topic. They know how much you know about stuff. They stop the discussion whenever they feel comfortable, or uncomfortable. Moreover, you know how stubborn your friends are. Some of them, you can run right over them. But there are some who just won’t agree with something and no matter how much you try cajoling him/her, or try and make a point; they will not budge, until and unless you give up.

                                                                                                                                                                          

But the undisputed champion, who listens to me ramble on the entire day and never breathes a single word back to me, who respects my every word and just uses other’s words in the argument, is the one and the only – My Blog! {Forgive my terrible clichés (other’s words = comments)… I’m terribly low on caffeine.}

And it is because of my aforementioned reason that I’m posting this here with a pledge to post even more posts in the foreseeable future.