[Joan.of.the.Arch]

When I responded to your message back in December I thought I was surrounded by quite a few tortured souls who were hard to be with. Those people are still with me, but in recent days I feel more aware of the good, honest, articulate, interesting, wholesome, kind, dependable, honorable people in my life. I think I'm really lucky.

I guess I do know the kind of blabbering you are asking about, though. I think it does tend to come from some sort of insecurity in people. Or sometimes people might just be kind of thinking out loud. Maybe they haven't given previous quality thought to their topic, so they can give one opinion one time, another opinion next time. Or, maybe, like me, their perceptions have just changed.