Comment by Nevermark

For more than half my life I couldn't do small talk. It made zero sense to me. Why talk and laugh about the same things over and over - are people really that boring? That dumb?

Then it hit me. That ancient sound of two modems pushing static noise at each other, adjusting, until they identified their common frequencies.

Now I strike up low stake conversations with anyone and everyone. It adds interest to life, and it is a lot easier to make connections.

For me this was a profound life changing epiphany explosion.