It
has been commented by fellow bloggers that I covered quite a range of
different themes in my Blogs. I do so to clear my mind of the jumbled
thoughts that keep piling up, often mixed & tangled that need
periodic deleting or filing away. I guess the Blog serves the purpose of
the latter.
That
made me think of the theme which occurs to most people frequently or
even daily, in any greeting or meeting between 'friends of the weather' I
call them. The way they always begin any conversation by talking about
the weather. Especially the English. It's almost like the obligatory
beginning of any casual conversation with friends, & an unwritten
rule for ice breaking with strangers. It works well I must admit but I
seldom do if not never. What's the point when 2 neighbours meet in the
same street & start telling each other about the weather you both
under & well aware of? In the net where cyber friends could be
anywhere in the world, the need for anyone to know how the weather is
for me in Spain or where they are in America, Australia or wherever, is
not exactly something either is dead interested in knowing. Unless you
are about to visit each other.
After
a good 10 minutes moaning, comparing & discussing the weather,
just when you think it's not too rude to change the subject to finally
say " So, how have you been doing?", not suspecting, that would just
open the door for a 3 quarter hour detailed
account of his friend's poor sister-in-law's cousin's fiance's
untimely broken ankle ... while you try hard to think whether you have
ever even met that friend, let alone the long chain of people attached
to him.
There's
also the very caring, very solicitous friend, who wishes to know
EVERYTHING, what you did, been doing, will do ... covering the past 6
months & the next 6 to come.
Or the one who insists, each & every time you meet, that " We simply must get together to have some dinner or something. I'll call you" then hurried off, never to be heard of again, until the next time you meet, to repeat the same conversation all over, for the 5th year! That kind of friends are usually women, while men would try to corner you every chance they get to invite you out for 'dinner. That's okay if some of them don't have in mind the desert being the kind the waiter brings to the table.
One day when you just recovered from a dreadful cold that kept you in bed for a whole week, now still with streaming eyes & a red nose, there would be this very warm & charming friend who always greets you with a huge smile, & squealed : " Mine, don't you look gorgeous! Love your hair! Oh, new blouse too, lovely!" when you hadn't washed your hair for a week & she had said the same thing when she last saw the blouse 2 years ago!
People
don't seem to really communicate any more except one or double liners
by occasional email. Or they do talk together but not exactly say
anything! Or say things just to fill the awkward silence, without
meaning them!
I
am reluctant to, but I might have to join the majority after all, if I
want to have some conversation with people. Play safe, start with the
weather, If you are
interested, it's a bit cloudy today in Roses, but the sun did come up
this morning, then disappeared, then back again, and now... hell, I am
just no good at this! Who am I to try to compete with the Weather Gent / Lady?
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