If I'm meeting people with similar interests, that doesn't often happen for me. I enjoy meeting new people one-on-one but it doesn't mean I want to spend a lot of time with them or become great friends. I'm open to that, I just don't try to "make" it happen.
If you ask most people to talk about themselves, and continue to ask questions about them, the silence goes away pretty rapidly.
There's a great TED talk, The Power of Introverts, have you seen it?
I may watch it again right now.
Me 57/H 58 M36 S 2.5yrs R 12/13
Let me give up the need to know why things happen as they do. I will never know and constant wondering is constant suffering. Caroline Myss