A professor lectures on it if you're taking their class. A man or woman talks about it for their job. People track this for a living so that we can have it synced to our phones whenever and wherever. But, for some reason when we discuss it openly it is automatically deemed as small talk. Weather…I am talking about the weather. Why is the weather distinctly discriminated against as being small talk? Weather is a constant part of our lives, but yet for some reason, if I talk about how the rain has been more prominent lately it's small talk and the conversation gets tense. No. No, I am tired of the weather being picked on for once and for all. If I walk outside and it’s a perfectly brisk fall morning, you bet your ass I will be talking about the atmospheric conditions the rest of the day.
GET EXCITED ABOUT THE WEATHER PEOPLE. IT'S MAGIC.
There have been too many times in my life where I have been in a line to get coffee or where I have bumped into someone in the store and I have brought up weather, but then they get weird and become bored. Ummmmm no, take a step back ma’am. Have you been outside? Did you feel the perfect 63-degree weather outside with a slight breeze? Did it not make you want to go pick pumpkins and be jolly? Look I am sorry if you think the weather is small talk because it's single-handedly the most exciting thing to happen every day I have lived. Why will I be shunned from the social world if I decide to ask if you have broken out your snow boots for the cold weekend coming up? Get excited about life, get excited about the weather.
Small talk doesn’t have to be an awkward thing. Small conversations we share with our waiters can be the highlights of our day. The few sentence conversations we share with our sister before the leave to school could make us have an extra skip in our step throughout the morning. Discussing little things don’t have to be small talk. Small talk is saved for people who don’t feel comfortable expressing their passions. Well, guess what, the weather is passionate. Weather is ever changing and constantly making people happy and mad. Now, what's more passionate that ever changing emotions? Nothing. If I step outside and can sense fall in the air, I will let everyone that I come in contact with from here to Pullman that it’s the greatest day in the world to be outside.
Get juiced about the conditions of the changing seasons outside. Make people listen to you ramble about how it's pumpkin picking weather. Don’t let people who say that weather is small talk tear you down because the best conversations I have had with people is when we all sit and get hyped over how many degrees it is going to drop within the next week. And if YOU think the weather is small talk, then you're the bad one at talking to people so don’t try and blame it on the wonderful change of climate.
