Small Talks

All of us, at one point or another, experienced a small talk. Probably while waiting in line for the dentist, to escape the silence of an awkward meeting at an MRT Station, or being stuck with an acquaintance at the dinner table while everyone else went on the dance floor.

Small talks are only surfaces of who we are. If I shall compare it to Baseball, it only makes up Base number 1. Anti-socials avoid it, extroverts make the best of it. Our ability to engage in small talks defines our probability to link ourselves to the world. Small talks are made for formality's purposes, a law of nature unsaid but should be simultaneously done. Where do I live? Is that near the..what was that again? Oh, so you go there? Where you do work/study? oh, okay. What's your name again? I'm this and that by the way.

Insignificant and pointless at first. Little do we know that they are like mortar bricks, ready to build relationships with people. Small talk shapes human culture, and strengthens our chains of interrelatedness and dependability with one another. Small talks make a "small world".