Conversations

On your middle seat in your 5 hours long flight
On your organized group holiday for 15 days with 30 other strangers
In the first week at new workplace
and of course at that party when you knew no one..

...there is just that one tool of 'conversations' that keeps you alive.

Conversations interestingly are an underestimated find (or shall we say capability) of mankind and rewardingly enough only this species seems to be capable of this evolved communication!

It is not just the fodder to keep afloat with strangers but is also the mainstay of our most basic emotional need - relationships. And when you have reached that high up in Maslow's heirarchy, conversations only help you climb up higher.

I hear there are many places in the old interiors of delhi, where depending on the moolah you shell out - you get someone to converse with - to stimulate your mind - talk about the gothic architecture, about the mughlai cuisine, about Shakespeare and sundry..
and this just highlights our desperate need to talk ( to some one ) about SOMETHING we really care about...when you want to talk about 'higher' things in life and all you seem to be talking about is the day at work, daily ration, bitching about that fella....basically when you have fallen into this trap of 'mediocrity'..it is important then to broaden horizons, open up minds and climb a level up!

And we have done what we know the best, we have succeeded to even monetize even this!
Be it Oprah or Simi Garehwal, Karan Johar or Farah, name it u have it...
Even our popular culture has captured (and exploited) this sentiment beautifully -
it 'Before Sunset' or 'Jab we Met' - the conversations kept them going on...

and don't fear if you are not well versed with this art...just pick on any of the 2,040,000 results that google belches out for 'most interesting topics for conversations'!!!