The Rusted Musket

There are of course 2 parts to any conversation, speaking and listening: but I find that most conversing people, myself included, seem to like speaking the most and not so much the part where we have to listen.  Maybe this is because listening is a virtue and speaking a talent.  Let me explain…  Talents come naturally therefor if speaking is your talent you’ll naturally like to chat whereas listening, as a virtue, is unnatural to Sir Speaksalot because it is earned by training through, not along with, his impulse.   In closing, listening  is a very alien artifact to most of us with the gift of gab therefor the acquisition of an attentive ear should rank among the highest of priorities for the budding conversationalist…