Comment by notRobot
3 years ago
When I was younger and more pretentious I used to get annoyed at friends for answering "what's up?" with "nothing much" because in my head by asking that I was obviously fishing for conversation material so you should just bring up something that we can talk about.
Something that happened recently or something that you heard about or something you remembered or something you are looking forward to, just... anything.
It seems some people might be more comfortable sitting in silence and so they don't feel the need to talk about _anything_ as a way to break it. Maybe it's an introvert/extrovert thing.
Well why are you putting it on them to come up with something to talk about? "Not much, sup with you?" puts it back on you.
I used to only ask "what's up?" after I'd exhausted everything I had to talk about usually. I used to think a lot about dynamics like these lmao.
What's up?
I'm playing with LEGO®.
I'm eating sushi. You?
I'm in spaaaaaaceeeee but I'm separated from my module!!! Halp!
I used to be that way too. Now I see that there are depths there that I didn't see. I was blind to my blindness. I try to keep my cool now. Reply with something soft and cool.