You’re at the library committee meeting and you say the idea you’ve been thinking about: move the fall book sale to a Saturday, before the farmers market crowd leaves. A few people nod, and the chair says okay, what else, and the talk moves on.
Ten minutes later, Carol says maybe the sale should be on a Saturday, to catch the market crowd. Everyone likes it. Someone says great idea and writes it down.
You look down at your notepad, where you wrote Saturday twenty minutes ago. You said it out loud to the whole room. No one picked it up until Carol said the same thing.
It happens everywhere
It’s not just the committee. The same thing happens at dinner, when you start a story and someone talks over the end of it. It happens at lunch with friends, when you answer a question and the talk keeps going like you hadn’t. It happens with family, when you say something to your daughter and an hour later she hears the same thing from someone else.
You’ve seen this your whole life. You start to say something, and the chance to talk passes before you get it out. After a while, you start to think it’s about you. Maybe you’re just easy to talk over.
