I'll be brief on this - one of my fingers looks like it's been bitten by a very tiny, very confused vampire and it hurts to type (It's more painful than it looks but you still shouldn't click it because it's a finger and honestly not a very nice looking one at that).
I was at a party the other night and a Ralph told me about this game they have with their friends whenever they're bored. They pick three random things and try to come up with a story involving all three completely random things that ties together and keeps the listener entertained.
"Well alright" I said, flexing my creativity muscles (read: asscheeks) "Give me three things". Ralph turned to me and stated as if it were the most normal collection of words in the entire universe "Flying horse, Electric Zebra and Fairy floss".
All at once several ideas began to race through my head. Within seconds I had created an entire world specifically for these two entities to fight it out over their delicious sugary prize. Cocksure, I turned back to Ralph and said "Easy! A flying horse has an epic battle with an electric zebra over fairy floss".
As soon as these words left my mouth I realised just how stupid they sounded out there all by themselves. I had thrown my entire story out in the wilderness with just a few words and no actual details to defend itself with. It was at this point I remembered that I'm terrible at articulating what I'm actually trying to say in conversation with another person in front of me.
This is something that I struggle with pretty much all the time, talking to girls I like, talking to people I don't know, talking in front of a large audience - when it comes to these things I get extremely quiet and start playing out hundreds of different conversations in my head, all at the same time, like some sort of fucking socially awkward chess master (although terrible at chess) and when I do say something I'm pretty sure I become five years old and lose my entire vocabulary. This is probably normal for everyone and I'm probably overplaying it to stretch out a point but moving towards being able to talk openly about things would make me feel a lot better about myself. It might also give me a bigger ego.
Moving on!
I was at a party the other night and a Ralph told me about this game they have with their friends whenever they're bored. They pick three random things and try to come up with a story involving all three completely random things that ties together and keeps the listener entertained.
"Well alright" I said, flexing my creativity muscles (read: asscheeks) "Give me three things". Ralph turned to me and stated as if it were the most normal collection of words in the entire universe "Flying horse, Electric Zebra and Fairy floss".
All at once several ideas began to race through my head. Within seconds I had created an entire world specifically for these two entities to fight it out over their delicious sugary prize. Cocksure, I turned back to Ralph and said "Easy! A flying horse has an epic battle with an electric zebra over fairy floss".
As soon as these words left my mouth I realised just how stupid they sounded out there all by themselves. I had thrown my entire story out in the wilderness with just a few words and no actual details to defend itself with. It was at this point I remembered that I'm terrible at articulating what I'm actually trying to say in conversation with another person in front of me.
This is something that I struggle with pretty much all the time, talking to girls I like, talking to people I don't know, talking in front of a large audience - when it comes to these things I get extremely quiet and start playing out hundreds of different conversations in my head, all at the same time, like some sort of fucking socially awkward chess master (although terrible at chess) and when I do say something I'm pretty sure I become five years old and lose my entire vocabulary. This is probably normal for everyone and I'm probably overplaying it to stretch out a point but moving towards being able to talk openly about things would make me feel a lot better about myself. It might also give me a bigger ego.
Moving on!
