One Sided Conversations

A friend recently remarked that blogging was rather something to scoff at, assimilating it to nothing more than a one-sided conversation.  Perhaps even something 'we might have to break up' over in her account of my present ambitions as a writer.  An insinuation that implies value can only be derived from two people sharing thoughts and deliberations versus an individual's thoughts conveying substance to contemplate.  While she perhaps has a one-sided point, I can't help but to chuckle regarding her knee jerk reaction missing the mark when it comes to the value that many a one-sided conversation has brought upon our existence.  Take for example the musings of  Plato, Aristotle, Ghandi, Rachel Maddow, and Eminem...icons of the human expression of thoughts, opinion, and instigators of both controversy and insight.  I mean, really? Had it not been for generations of individual thought and one-sided expression, things such as books (conveyors of information as she pointed out) would not be in existence.  I don't hold this particular viewpoint of my dear friend in contempt, however.  Given her present existence in the life sucking undertow that is grad school, I can almost understand her ridicule of any thoughts that live outside the realm of exploding brain cells wired to receive information that is to be regurgitated.  I admire her ability to thrive without emotional and tangible watering of her right sided lobe.  She is nothing short of my antithesis when it comes to the wiring of our 'noodles'.  I navigate with charm, prose, passion, and humor while she charts her course with hard facts, sharp edges, paper cuts and a tenacity that manifests miracles out of cyclic bonds and chemical reactions.  She compartmentalizes, I color outside the lines. She sees the facts, I see the possibilities. Both of us have our place in contributing to conversation, whether one sided or not.  Without our differences, there would be a crippling truth to her opinion of my decision to share the musings of my little deviant noodle ;)