Always something to talk about
I am a very talkative person. Unless I am anxious for some reason, in general, I can talk to a friend or stranger for hours straight. I can’t guarantee if the other person would have as much fun as I would, though.
This is helpful with blogging, particularly this site I committed myself to update as often as possible. The fact that I don’t have to write something useful is so, so liberating. I can start writing as if I there is a listener to my random babble sitting across me.
Maybe the reason I started this writing thing from the first place is that I don’t have many people around me to kindly and lovingly listen to me talk any more. Don’t get me wrong, they didn’t leave ME. They left the area…
I moved from Seoul to Upstate New York in 2019 as an expat of a Korea-based video game company to one of its offices in Saratoga Spring. I instantly clicked with the Saratoga colleagues and they now mean so much more than “work friends” to me. But with the pandemic, the office was closed temporarily and then permanently. A handful of the colleagues relocated out of the area—one as far as Seattle. Many got a new job. People moved on. No more daily morning coffee gatherings, gossiping over lunch or last-minute chats in the quiet office before heading back home after working through the evening. I just don’t have opportunities to release my chatterbox on a daily basis anymore.
So I am befriending a blog now. Although I miss my in-real-life friends, I realize it isn’t the worst thing for everyone. For one, I am learning to internalize my thoughts and improve writing. Two, no one’s ear is bleeding from my unending, relentless talking. (Actually, this isn’t true for my poor husband who has to still endure my pillow talks.)
Hey, they say “a problem shared is a problem halved.” I will have to keep talking and writing. If I could find listeners and readers lend their ears and eyes here once in a while to co-handle what I have to say… Just know you are saving two souls—I and my husband.
Thank you friends who lovingly bled ears to hear me talk <3
Well, talk soon!
