c0nFu&!ON

Opening up my life’s chapters to people is not who I am.

Sometimes I meet people who behave as if they know me since ever...! They just open their life’s book and start reading the chapters from there as if I was waiting to hear! They can just go on and on about who they are, what they’ve done, who they’re friends with right now, how their work treats them and how much they love or don’t love or like or dislike something or someone and blah blah blah…… Man, they can just go on and on and on…

And that’s exactly the time when my brain stops accepting signals from my ear. Switching off at such times is so easy! The person talking wouldn’t even realize that they’re not even being listened to and while they go on talking, my mind would be holiday-ing in the African jungles or if not that, then I’d be checking out my to-do list in the back of my head.

And to my amazement and advantage, when I return to the conversation they’d still be there where I had stopped paying attention to what they’re saying! This happens to me at most times! Is it because they talk too much and keep repeating the same thing again & again or is it because they talk really slow? I really don’t know because I am not listening to them when they’re talking!

Sometimes I doubt if I’m normal…because it happens to me all the time! And it happens not only when people are talking, but also when I am talking to them. Those are the times when in the middle of a sentence I have to go back to ask myself what was the point was I trying to make or where did I start from? My mind just keeps wandering aimlessly… it hits on to something, by the time it strikes a cord in my head and the signal reaches my tongue, my flirtatious mind has already decided to move on to strike another cord!