i'm a silent traveller.

assalamualaikum :]

have you ever experienced awkward silences...?

it's normal enough a thing for everyone to have experienced it, right? even the youngest reader of this blog must have experienced it, albeit being only (almost)thirteen.

the thing is...despite me being in a constant state of verbal diarrhoea, i'm almost always silent when i'm walking...or when i'm in a car, or a plane. as most of my other habits...it developed due to childhood shenanigans. well, i suppose they're not shenanigans if they lead me into being the person i am now.

when i walk with/sit beside someone who's not used to travelling with me...i always feel this constant pressure to come up with things to say (which might lead to said verbal diarrhoea consisting of awkward topics), because otherwise we'd fall into an awkward silence.

i don't mind if the non-silent traveller in question is a close friend who's used to my being an awkward misfit, because we'd talk for a bit and then we'd fall into a comfortable, mutual silence.

for this reason, i like going places with mas. because she's a silent traveller too, so we'd talk very little during the journey, and then we'd just fall into a long silence..




...i said awkward thrice. vocab thirst alert!

(LET'S PLAY A GAME - DETECT THE GRAMMATICAL ERRORS! :P)