We need to talk

We need to talk. Can we talk? I have to tell you something.

When one hears these words, sort of an invitation to talk, anything can be expected. Far away from being a wink towards a Socratic dialogue, it is common that the invitation or requirement to talk corresponds to not so nice reasons. When our own solitude is shared with others, conversations are common to be sustained. That’s what humans usually do, through thousands of languages, accents and jargons. However, when something unpleasant has to be communicated, it is emphasized the need to talk.

One might guess that there are million of couples whose ending was preceded not only by one, but by many “we have to talk”. Don’t they were talking before? The we need to talk might be followed by I need time. Again, as usually we have to talk, we usually also need time, without time we would not even be able to conceive our own existence. We need the earth’s movement, the feeling of time and of movement. We all have to talk and we all need time.

Another situation where one might face a we have to talk is being fired from a job. We need to talk…you are fired. Many times is just a letter, a coward but accurate we have to talk, to which you cannot talk back.

Life and death also provoke the urge to talk. We have to talk, I am pregnant or we have to talk, your granddad past away.

…or any other temporary and significant situation.

We have to talk. I am moving out.

One has to explicit its own need to talk, to talk?