When you have difficulties following their conversations, because you can’t seem to understand what they’re talking about, because everything they’re saying had become, totally irrelevant to you somehow…
When you have difficulties following their conversations, you may first feel that sense of slow panic, which you’d worked hard, to hide, because you didn’t want anybody to notice, that you’re NO longer as lucid as you are from before.
When you have difficulties following their conversations, you wanted them to slow down their words, but, why would they? After all, once, not very long ago, you were, an avid conversationalist yourself. When you have difficulties following their conversations, there’s nothing you CAN do, but keep on, hiding the fact, that you can no longer understand, because, if you allowed that to show, then, they will surely know, that something IS definitely wrong with you, and that, is the last thing you’d want to have happened…
Life, the Obstacle Course 