Social Interactions with Friends and Family

Today, I had the pleasure of visiting much of my family. I was able to visit my cousins, my aunts and uncles, as well as my grandparents. I stopped by each of their respective houses after being picked up from the airport. While I was able to see each of these people over Christmas vacation, I was not really able to have a decent conversation with them.

It seems to me that whenever there is a large gathering of people, no deep conversation happens. With many people, if such a conversation begins, it is inevitable that it will be interrupted. Thankfully, there weren't too many people today to have some good conversations. Now that I think of it, I hadn't had good conversations with my family for quite a while.

The same holds true in conversations with friends; if there is a large group, conversations between subsets of the group will inevitably be interrupted. The most vocal of the group seem to end up being those who direct the conversation. Actually, this semester, I have not even spent much time with friends; I always seem to have things to do. The other day, I did hang out with several friends; we had a ?smoothie movie night,? where we had smoothies (made of fruits and ice cream put into a blender), and we watched a movie. It was a rather enjoyable time.