Remember When?
Imagine almost any situation where two or more people are gathered--wedding reception, callbacks for a play, two off-duty cops hanging out in a Jacuzzi. All these situations involve people trying to effectively communicate with each other. Conversation can be hard. It can be really difficult to come up with things to say, especially to new people, but I'm noticing that it's becoming increasingly difficult for people to speak in general. Every time I talk to someone, I'm noticing this desperate scramble to fill the air between us, and apparently it doesn't matter what you say as long as there is no silence. Except that said unacceptable silence is being filled in the strangest way possible. I'm not sure where this came from, but I'm constantly hearing (and now seeing on Facebook and other social media) sentences beginning with "Remember when" and then followed by an anecdote of some kind. "Remember when we saw that movie last night?" ...