In today’s post, we are going to talk about the lost art of conversation.

We live in a age where we have talk all around us. We have the radio, television, podcasts, etc, but we are hardly ever engaged in conversation.

We watch movies, play games, but rarely enjoy stimulating conversation in our modern culture. Our leisure activities  and forms of entertainment are silent; we spend more time watching television and surfing the internet than having a conversation with others.

In his book, “The Lost Arts of Modern Civilization” Michael Kalpalegain states that true conversation is, ” not gossip, babble, or the mere exchange of information. ” Rather true conversation encourages the “light-hearted spontaneous play of mind enjoying the company of others in the round of talk that gracefully jumps from one topic in no regular order and moves easily from the comic to the gracious, from the ideal to the practical, and from the factual to the anecdotal.” (pg. 24).

How often hove you engaged in such a conversation? A conversation the one not only learns about the person and acquires their friendship, but also though the course of conversing learns something new and interesting while also engaging one’s mind. These such conversations are diminishing in our modern society because we have few reasons to expect them.

So how can we revive this lost art and have it flourish as it once did?

One of several things we need to do is to be good listeners, understand current happenings, get to know the person without meddlesome questioning, and to promote kindness and warmth to everyone.  True conversation does not exclude anyone, but allows everyone to be and feel included and special.

In the comings weeks I will give tips on each one of these topics, as including everything in this post will make it very long.

I hope you were inspired by this post to start really understanding conversation. I know I will be using conversation differently than I have done in the past by reading about this topic.

Have a great morning,

Alyssa