Having a lot to say, is a young person's game. Although may old people can't stop talking.

I guess it's more accurate to say, that having a lot to say, is an un

illuminated

person's game.

I remember in

college

when I was the most lost and confused, I was the most convinced that I was always on some revolutionary brink. And because of this I could never shut the hell up! I always had something to say.

Lately, as I begin feeling convergence with the

truth

, I no longer feel that same lull to always be speaking. Always having something to say. Often I'll be sitting at a table and the folk around me will be chatting and I'll be totally fine not saying a word.

This used to rub me the wrong way. There was a time when I always had to make myself some part of the conversation. I didn't always enjoy being the spectacle, but I'd never want to be a

ghost

. And I'd always be obsessed with being

understood

by people.

Few years back I realized that it was more satisfying to

understand

than to be understood.

Nowadays I've come to see that there are very few people who you need to be understood by. The world doesn't need to understand you.