Have you ever tried to tell a story and felt like nobody was paying you attention? Like they didn’t care at all, well, you’re not alone!
You are with a group of friends and start talking about your day when all of a sudden they start talking over you, and they completely forget you were talking in the first place. That, my friend, is awful, but the good thing is we all have been there. This doesn’t mean your friends hate you. It may even be possible that your story is actually interesting, but it may just be the fact that you’re awful at telling it.
When we are in this situation, we have two main ideas going through our mind: do I continue telling the story? Or do I stay quiet and forget it? If you choose the first one, you may encounter another interruption that will either make you insanely furious, as the person in this Reddit story, or you will just ignore it.
I don’t think people who do this are bad, I believe that they just don’t care and have an awful way of responding to it. Instead of listening and pretending they do care, they just avoid engaging in the conversation by talking over you –it seems very childish if you ask me. Maybe as a society we should be more forward about our feelings and express them, respond to the interruption, and say out loud how annoying that is. We always keep everything inside of us, hoping someone notices it, but the truth is we should just express ourselves, call out the person who is disregarding our stories, stand up for ourselves, and interrupt the interrupter.
We should stop being so childish, saying things like I don’t want to tell the story anymore and just say please shut up, I’m talking. Stop expecting people to defend you, have a voice, express that you want to talk without being interrupted for two seconds, or simply don’t tell the story at all and save it for someone who will actually care –or at least be kind enough not to interrupt.
Author: Kayitsi.com
