The Real

 Have you ever been in the presence of someone(s), and that person or a person in the group begins to talk about something real?  No chit chat or pleasantries, a form of politeness, when people sense no one is interested in talking about something of real depth in the heart.  The real might be about loneliness, a tragedy, a revelation of a personal fault, even something that is a funny, but a real event in their life.  Suddenly, when the real is spoken, you, the listener, feel a sense of attraction to the speaker, the subject.  Maybe a restlessness, barely noticeable, in you, loses its grip.  Boredom is never the reaction to the real when spoken by another person.  I know how to be polite, as in chit chat.  I have to work at noticing the real emotions in me and the courage to speak them to another.