It's quite late, and I can't (or maybe shouldn't) sleep because I'm in the thick of some revisions on my paper, and I seem to have a little bit of momentum that I don't want to disrupt. Yet it's too quiet to concentrate for any length of time. I do my best studying and writing in a busy coffee shop, where the chatter and commotion actually help me focus better than in a hushed library. I'm lucky to have the perfect coffee shop within a few hundred feet of campus, a two-minute walk from the building where I spend a good part of my day. I end up spending any of my unexpected free time there, because I know it will be profitable time!
I keep drifting over to Facebook to see if anyone else is still awake. A few music friends still seem to be near their computers. The composers especially! I don't think those guys ever sleep. No one that I can really talk to though... It seems like ages since I've had any meaningful conversations. Deep conversations. I think the last real conversation I had was at the monthly Bible study fellowship held by my church for us twenty-somethings.
Someday you will be someone I can go to for those meaningful conversations! I want to engage in conversation on stimulating topics like theology, philosophy, history, politics, economics, science, and music. Surely you are a man whose interests run higher than sports, video games, electronics, and cars!
And yet sometimes we will be content to sit quietly in a comfortable silence. I need that too quite frequently--which, I've read, is a common desire for introverts (Susan Cain's book Quiet is great!). Yes, I fall into that "introvert" category. But when admitting that, I also like to direct friends to a list of "10 Myths About Introverts". Particularly items 1 and 6 echo the sentiments of this post.
Until I meet you, this blog will have to suffice when I have these late-night cravings for conversation! But then again, you'll probably need your sleep like all the others, right?
Waiting,
Me
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