The Trichotomy of Conversation

There is an unfortunate trichotomy as far as genuine conversations with people are concerned. First, people who have enough intelligent things to say, a great pondering of the universe, life and its many facets, etc and a complicated enough imagination to say these things to another person rarely meet each other, due to there being few of them. Second: conversation is a dialogue and not a monologue; high voltage personalities usually monopolize on an opportunity to tell another person what they think about things. Third: Mutual interest in the direction, composition, and participants of the conversation is of the utmost importance.