Halls of the Dark Muse

I do not know if it is a by product of the text, Facebook, twitter age, in which people are reduced to sharing rather banal tidbits about themselves often in the briefest way possible, and which has greatly minimalized conversation, but I am coming to notice that it seems people have grown either rather intellectually lazy, for lack of a better word, or simply no longer really know how to truly fully express themselves and communicate effectively.

I am the kind of person who treat emails just as I would writing an actual letter. I can be quite verbose, I generally do not use abbreviations, Internet slang, I take offence at using "u" for you, I always capitalize my I's. And I do tend at times to have a bit of theatrical flare, a bit of style, a touch of dramatics, to my writing. Even when I do text my friend, I always use full sentences and rarely use text lingo.

I have recently crossed paths with a few individuals online, and as I currently have a vacant spot open right now, a position to be my friend is open, but it is a rigorous screening process. But I had stumbled across a few individuals with whom it seems we have some common ground, but one thing I have found is the fact that it has been difficult to actually get a natural, fluid, organic flow of conversation going with them.

They always respond to my emails with one or two word responses, maybe sometimes one whole sentences, but it really doesn't give me much to go off of. So it is reduced to me asking them questions and hopefully get them talking about something but they always just answer me in the briefest terms possible and do not really offer up anything in return. Every attempt I make to try and start a real conversation ends in this sort of dead end in which the attempt makes me feel like I am playing 20 questions or pulling teeth.

So eventually I just stop trying because I end up loosing interest, and they make me put way too much effort into it. Once I do actually become friends with someone than I will work for it, but before we get there, I need that spark, that connection to inspire me to want to want to put the work into it.

I need to be intrigued.