I love this question. I think most conversations with strangers should start in this way instead of the template how are you? Especially so that people don’t actually mean it whenever they ask that. What’s on your mind is straightforward and honest.
Now let me ask myself, what’s on my mind? Not much really. I have just arrived from Indooroopilly shopping mall after our IAP. This day is quite uneventful. Not that I expected so much for today. It’s just that not much happened as of this writing.
The three Filipino ADS said they are dropping by to check my place. They probably want to move in. Well, it’s a good thing if they do. It can be very lonely here in my place. The Malaysian guy just left and now I am sharing the house with a Chinese guy and gal. Both of them are very nice but we seldom talk. There are times when we do but they are not just the conversation buddy type. We just say our hi and hello, and little chit chats, and we are off to do what we have to.
There are plus and minus sides to it. There are times when I just want to talk to share whatever I have on my mind but our circumstances would not permit. We see each other just at night time. After cooking, we are all back to our respective rooms. Man, we are social animals. Or, it’s just I? I don’t know. There’s got to be much more sense here.
The good thing of course is we are pretty much left to whatever stuff we want to do on our own. No questions whatsoever. There is no need to qualify ourselves.
Am I such a socially dependent person? I thought I was a hermit. I thought I could very well manage on my own. Well I can, but not to the point of talking to myself, although I do that sometimes.
This can be difficult. I think this is the price of being in a first world country. In an effort to make things easy for everybody, we have relied so much on wiring ourselves. While it means efficiency and convenience, nothing replaces face-to-face communication. I will never trade my wonderful moments with my friends chatting in the living room in our staff dormitory. I remember I even traveled all the way from Nueva Ecija to Manila just to have some good conversation with friends. It was exhausting but I was very happy afterwards.
Handshakes, loud laughs cannot be replaced by emoticons! Another month here and it won’t be a surprise if I would end up asking the first person I run into, are you happy? I think we have created a world which is quite alien to all of us.
I think t it’s time we rethink how we’re living our lives. Being too organized can be boring sometimes. Having just a bit of clutter on the side won’t be so bad.
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