@worriedguy Why do you ask that? I am a very boring lunch companion. In fact, I haven’t had lunch with someone in months—if not longer. Wow! I’m scaring myself. I’m not even exaggerating. But that’s real life. I think I wrap a wall of silence around me in real life.
Online, it’s different. It doesn’t matter whether I’m depressed or just broke my thumb or how I dress or whether I have spinach in my teeth. I can write and people can enjoy my writing and they can want to talk to me and they can imagine me any way they want.
I once had lunch with someone I met online. We had very nice conversations online, but when we had lunch, it was all kind of awkward and the conversation didn’t really flow.
I am fine with my friends, usually. Although I am perhaps not as polite as I once was. When I make music, it’s all good, but talking is different. Maybe I’m losing the art of conversation. I’m losing my memory, so why not conversation?
Online, it doesn’t matter that I can’t remember something. I can go look it up, and it’s as if I remember it. The same is true for conversation. I can do it right when I have time to make it right. In real time… no. I don’t think I would want to meet me for lunch. Besides which it would be totally boring. I already know my own stories.
But what is the point of this question?