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[elderwood]

So I'm here at work and a little bit earlier I was working with one of the "executive assistants" who was helping me out with printing some labels. As I was standing off to the side putting stamps on some envelopes, I heard her mumbling. I couldn't tell if she was mumbling directly at me or not, so I listened a little bit closer, and it turns out

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[warmthss]

agreed.

or to quote Mia from Pulp Fiction: "That's when you know you've found somebody special. When you can just shut the fuck up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence. "

[nataliegrace]

hahaha, nice one henry!

im sure the masses get ya girl. come bring my soup and we can chill in silence. i cant talk much anyways.

[snarkitty]

Oooh.. the image makes me want to watch Amelie so terribly. It's such a beautiful movie!

While I have experienced awkward silence, I don't understand why people feel like they have to fill not-awkward silence. It's odd. Perhaps they're concerned about making you feel like they're igornign you? Id on't know. It's weird.

But yeah.. being perfectly comfortable with prolonged silence to me means a special sort of connection. Yees.

[libbythered]

I can't speak much for the drone, but I babble to myself because my internal monolouge is a little too external. It's not that I'm afraid of silences - I enjoy an empty head now and then, or get deep in thought and forget the world - but if I'm feeling a bit "peppy" I tend to talk to inanimate objects (i.e., "voice activated fabric" - scolding fabric when it's not behaving). I guess I just live in my own little world and sometimes that world spills over.

Sometimes those people peppering the silence don't even realize they're talking. Others just like to feel connected to the people they're around. To exchange memetic information is to be initiated and accepted into someone else's worldview, thus helping the babbler feel more at ease.

Or something like that.

-Red Out

[__gogodancer]

I know exactly what you mean.
Sometimes I just get in these moods where I want to just be quiet and think and look around me - and so it frustrates me to no end when someone sits next to me and has to say random things constantly. I don't get the awkwardness.

I love being silent around people I'm comfortable with.