(Again with the useless, unnecessary thoughts.)

Mind turning into stone, heavy, unalive, still, dense yet bland and blank.

When do stories become stories? Are they really just events happening throughout the passage of time? Can they be moving thoughts, changing emotions? Can they be a still description of something, a question with answers in progress, a forever draft?

More like, can all those listed above and beyond, be considered and called stories?

I have a lot of things to tell, yet at the same time those things don't really matter. They don't bring any useful tips, insightful lessons, empathetic views to the reader and listener. Maybe they reflect my internal thoughts, feelings, mindsets and viewpoints, but ultimately they don't serve anything much.

I realize that many people have different stories, just that they don't consider them stories, let alone stories appropriate to tell.

Sometimes I want to hear from people. Not just their current life updates, but also their past activities, their concluded lessons from personal experience, their interests, their thoughts on their interests, so many things. But most of the time I'm not sure what to ask. What to pinpoint.

It's not even about being too shy and awkward. It's literally about not finding the topic to ask. I'm wondering about the person, so much, but I'm not interested only in a particular subject. What topic should I come up with? Is this too theoretical and philosophical? Too trivial even in small talk's standards? Does this require too much thinking and wiring, instead of creating a spark in the speaker to actually speak with enthusiasm?

So many stories and yet I can't hear any of them, simply because I'm not sure what exactly I'm looking for. A shame.