"I gave up small talk for a month – and the world came alive."
Being somewhere 'on the A-Spectrum', I am incapable of small talk.
If weather is mentioned, I sometimes voice my and my mother's interest in meteorology, and people mostly (mercifully) drift away.
The goats tune out, and no sheep stay.
Being 'hard of hearing' is an even better ploy...
But the world "comes alive" in a very private way.
Here is exactly the sort of snippet that I would call
Part of a Conversation.
Did you know that the famous Paisley print pattern has its origins in Persia ? The teardrop/pear-shaped motif, known as boteh in Farsi, is probably a stylised almond or cypress cone (the cypress was sacred to Zoroastrians, and pineapple-ish cones have been much used in European sculptural decoration).
When I show visitors my gabbeh representing a Peacock on the Tree of Life (symbol of immortality since Assyrian times) they glaze over, staying that way even when I show them my own paintings - also featuring the Tree of Life (or Immortality) without the peacock...
and so, with time, my few friends have
(like my few lovers), dwindled to nought.
My world is principally trees and thought.
People over 15 (or, sometimes, 25) may sometimes
like to learn, but generally don't like to be taught.
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