Does anyone else seem to encounter more and more people who just seem uninterested in conversations? Or rather, what the other person is saying?
Luckily not the case with most of my family members or very close friends but I’ll often be out with a friend or talking to an acquaintance at a party or something and we’ll be having a conversation and I just feel whenever I say something they instantly switch off.
I’m a very active listener, engaged in conversation, ask questions of people and take an interest in people and what they have to say. I often feel this isn’t reciprocated? I can have a whole conversation with someone and not have a single question asked of me, not even ‘how about you?’ Similarly, I could have asked a question of someone and they’ve talked at length or they’ve been telling me an anecdote, and the moment I start to respond with either my own anecdote or thoughts on the matter I just see a glazed expression or a slight flicker that I know means they aren’t very interested.
I really don’t think it’s because I’m droning on or anything like that! It just makes me feel like so many interactions are one sided these days. Are people just lost in their own thoughts now more than they were before?