Look Who's Talkin'
Have you ever been around someone who talked too much? Too fast? Too detailed? Too private? Too ___________ (fill in your own experience)? I have. And I don't really like it. Sometimes it's funny for a bit or interesting at first. But usually, at some point during their one-sided conversation, I start thinking about how it's humanly possible for one person to talk so much or so fast, or about how I wish they would just stop because this is something that I so do not need to know. Where is their stop button, or a slow-down option, or their filter, for heaven's sake?! Why don't they have one?! It's funny because I have spent most of my life wishing that I was more outgoing. Too shy to speak up in class or to say hi to someone who could have been my friend. And I am now amazing myself by how I've grown and been able to function better in a group or speak up when I felt I needed too. I am shocked that I am abl...