As I spend time with older people I notice how they typically feel comfortable and in fact favour the silence; quiet lulls in everyday conversation.
My generation (I'm 20 years old) has a tendency to feel agitated or 'awkward' when there is an awkward pause or break in conversation, and we feel a need to overcompensate, perhaps due to feeling insecure that the other person does not find us engaging enough, or due to the misguided belief that people have to constantly be talking to be communicating.
Do you have any insight, or any advice to how to have more meaningful, and real interactions, when everyone else is terrified of making things "awkward"?
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As I spend time with older people I notice how they typically feel comfortable and in fact favour the silence; quiet lulls in everyday conversation.
My generation (I'm 20 years old) has a tendency to feel agitated or 'awkward' when there is an awkward pause or break in conversation, and we feel a need to overcompensate, perhaps due to feeling insecure that the other person does not find us engaging enough, or due to the misguided belief that people have to constantly be talking to be communicating.
Do you have any insight, or any advice to how to have more meaningful, and real interactions, when everyone else is terrified of making things "awkward"?
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