Day Two: Asking Questions

Sorry for not updating yesterday - I got home rather late last night and wanted to spend time with my family (and also spend a decent amount of time sleeping...although that didn't happen)

As mentioned, yesterday was a day to ask only questions. I tried to concentrate on other people's lives more than my own. Rather than giving detail about what was going on in my life, I would give a quick answer and ask them about theirs. I would like to consider myself a generally curious person, so I felt like this wasn't much of a change from usual conversation other than I was more aware of it.
It got difficult when in a real conversation, where mutual sharing needed to happen. It's hard to have a discussion when one person does all the talking. I did slip into some unnecessary comments yesterday, but at least I was aware of them. Again with the talking for the sake of their being noise rather than silence.

Most of what is unnecessary, I find, is stories. It's a way of reminiscing for me, or trying to connect people to an awesome way I've felt, but it doesn't always end up working out how I hope. I guess it can be taken as me wanting to talk about myself. And truly, that isn't my intention. In fact, most of my stories revolve around something funny my friends said, or something awesome my family members do. So it's not about me necessarily, but more about what I appreciate in my life. One of the reasons I talked about Caleb so much when we dated, I imagine, because he was something I appreciated. And I know that all my cute stories about him could drive my mom nuts.

But at least I was conscious of it all, and hopefully, I will continue to be once these four days are over. When the day is done, I'll give you a little update about my current test. :)