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Humans talk. That much is clear.<\/p>\n
What I find interesting is how strong the urge is. When we experience something unusual, whether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beautiful or terrible, the first thing we want to do (once out of harm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s way) is to tell someone about it. Until we share it, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something incomplete about the experience. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not framed properly in our consciousness yet.<\/p>\n
In fact, before I tell others about something that happened, I frequently find myself telling the story internally, as if I were someone else. Am I self-medicating? Fulfilling my need to tell the story even though there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no one to listen?<\/p>\n
Repeating a story helps to seal it in your memory, even if you only repeat it to yourself. \u00c2\u00a0When you tell others, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re helping seal the the experience in the collective memory of the group. This behavior has clear evolutionary advantages, of course, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a different post (maybe a different blog?).<\/p>\n
Interestingly, the urge is even true of dreams. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I dreamt that I was a really good jumper,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I said to my wife this morning. She didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care much. I hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even expected her to care, but the urge to share experiences is built in, regardless of whether others want to hear.<\/p>\n
Because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s definitely the telling that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important, not the listening. I could go my whole life without hearing what my wife dreamt about last night. But I would never want to give up my ability to tell her about mine. How many times have I finished a story, even after the listener\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes have glazed over?<\/p>\n
I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see your eyes as you read this, but they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re probably pretty glazed by now. So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll call it a post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Humans talk. That much is clear. What I find interesting is how strong the urge is. When we experience something unusual, whether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beautiful or terrible, the first thing we want to do (once out of harm\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s way) is to tell someone about it. Until we share it, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something incomplete about the experience. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution-and-such","category-humanity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}