This post can title itself.

I have nothing exciting to post about my upcoming move to the Netherlands, so I thought I'd stray from the recent topic a bit...

I was talking to my new friend Taylor (he says he's my friend now) on the subject of... Well, talking to people.

I'm not sure what's wrong with my generation.  I mean, I know there's that popular rumor going around detailing how the current generation is killing the English language with their text speak and horrible grammar.  (Though you can't really say that the older generations have perfect grammar either.)

The thing I don't understand is why every conversation has to start out along the lines of this: "hey whats up?" "nothing much you?" "same." Then if you stray from that even a little, the response is typically in the fashion of: "uhh... right... okay." I don't know, I guess when I ask "what's up?" I literally want to know what is up.  "Nothing much" doesn't really mean anything. Either nothing is up, or something is up.  And I'm willing to bet that something is up, because hardly anyone does absolutely nothing at all.  You would think that maybe if you just ask a more specific question, you'll get a better answer, but even if you were to ask "So what have you been up to today?" you would still get a "nothing much" as a response.

Maybe this is why I have a hard time starting conversations with people.  After the whole "what's up" exchange is finished, people expect you to actually then start in with whatever it was that you originally wanted to talk about with them.  Well, maybe I didn't even have anything in mind.  Maybe I'm just bored and felt like talking to someone, and maybe I was looking forward to your response about what's up to find something to discuss from there.

My friends only talk to me when they want something, maybe this is where the problem lies... They expect me to want something when I go to talk to them, just like they do in talking to me.  I can't just talk to them for the sake of talking to them, the notion of that alone is crazy.  Well, who needs friends like that, anyway?

I gave them my blog link when I first made it.  The blog was intended for family and friends. I thought maybe they'd like to keep up with me or something.  Every single one of them opened the link, told me it looked good, and then never went back.  

Some friends.