say: social skills practice

You think of something to say. Then the moment passes. It happens in line at the store. In elevators. At the edge of a room where everyone else seems to have started already. You work out what to say, and by the time you have it, it is too late to say it. So it stays in. And another one joins it. You are not short of things to say. You say them constantly — on the walk home, in the shower, at two in the morning. The reply you thought of an hour late. The thing you almost said to the person at the counter. Most of what you say in a day, you say to yourself. WHAT YOU ACTUALLY WANT You are not trying to become a different person. You do not want to work a room, or be the loudest one in it, or have a personality transplant on the way to the store. You want to say something to the person next to you without rehearsing it first. You want to leave a place having spoken to someone in it. You…