What do you wanna do?
….I dunno. What do you wanna do?
You wanna eat?
….I dunno. You wanna eat?
What do you wanna eat?
….I dunno. What do you wanna eat?
….
You wanna wait?
Yeah. No. I dunno. You wanna wait?
….
Wanna play Call of Duty?
….I dunno. You wanna?
….
Wanna…
You wanna?
….
….
67
Sometimes, it’s easy to be nostalgic for conversations like this. Everything is possible, yet nothing is doable!
Shared with W3 #192
Today’s Daily Stoic poem:
1994ever 
I know this way of conversing 🙂 You’ve captured it so perfectly.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I hear Aussie voices when I read this poem despite it being a universal teenage monotone. Thanks Paul 🙏
LikeLiked by 1 person
🙂
LikeLike
Spot on for the prompt and it sounds like a teenage “normal” conversation!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Absolutely. But don’t you miss it? To not have anything much to think about… Haha!
LikeLiked by 1 person
of course!
LikeLike
Hey, Shaun, are you a Call of Duty fan? 💕 Love your chat.
LikeLiked by 1 person
My eyesight and dexterity isn’t good for these new games and I just can’t find enough time to waste on them these days too. I miss having the freedom to while away hours on them though. I will probably give GTA6 a whirl when it comes out.
Thanks Lesley 🙏
LikeLike
Difficult Conversation, indeed. Enjoyed your take, Shun. Best wishes for 2026.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Thanks Indira 🙏 You too
LikeLike
Sorry for the typo, Shaun.
LikeLiked by 1 person
The eternal dilemma of indecision!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Shaun, this is almost verbatim the conversations when I was in High School. No one wanted to make a decision! The was when I decided not to be apathetic…. I started making plans and decisions!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Even though I can’t understand my teen students when they are interacting in their first language, I can hear this conversation playing out again and again. I think things started to become overwhelming when we were teens and have only gotten worse since. I wonder if there any boomers or earlier that recognise this type of talk when they were teens?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Shaun as a boomer – the answer is that this conversation is played out in every generation!
LikeLiked by 1 person
In some ways, that is a comfort then!
LikeLiked by 1 person
I really like how this one spirals in that “I dunno” rhythm, Shaun. And that 6–7 ending totally cracked me up; it lands like the only decision anyone can actually make! 😀
~David
LikeLiked by 1 person
Even brain rot can become a decision!
LikeLiked by 1 person
*hug!* ~ that’s what I tell my daughter every day! 😀
LikeLike