the problem with having an open mind to things around you is that your attention can sway at any moment. Its one thing and can beautifully flow into another in the blink of an eye, the changing of seatign positions, crossing of legs a sigh,...anything can catch you and send you scurryign in another direction, but all together smooth and fluid like. But it can also be abrupt, you listen, all the while a topic comes from no where, and like too much air being filled into a baloon, the words just spill from you mouth, the next moment, but this is not to be mistaken for someone who loves to hear themselves talk or someone who doesnt care to hear or know about someones thoughts or troubles....your mind is a bus station, with thoughts walking in, staying a while, maybe not bothering a soul, just nestled in the back corner near the bathroom or pay phone, watchign the other thoughts racing in to catch their next stop onward...but at any moment, capable of jumping up, out and raging through the streets, screaming, mad man hymns against traffic.