I like to think I am good at talking to strangers and fitting in most situations. The problem that I find is that I often leave situations with little or no knowledge about the people I met. This is a problem. My other friends can remember the color of a persons shirt, the jokes they told and the drinks they ordered. For some reason, I lose the details but I remember the over all feeling of the event. Same thing with movies. It takes many many viewing for me to remember dialog. But if you quoted I would remember hearing it, in some movie.
Whats my point? Well like almost everything I do, I don’t really have one. But I do know that I am going to try to change this. I want to make friends, real connections. I want to be able to say hello when I see you and remember why I know you. Ask how your new scooter is running, or if you got that new job you applied for.
I know what you are thinking…”Dandee, maybe its because you meet so many people when you are at a bar with loud music playing? Maybe you had one too many tall vodka club sodas (with lemon) to remember?” A legit question, but that’s not it, I will figure it out.
Oh yeah…my point. If next time I see you I start asking questions like it was the first time we met, just play along. Its ok.