Sometimes, people don’t really listen to each other. They wait for their turn to speak rather than pause to consider the other perspective. Arguing becomes pointless. It only works when someone is willing to consider that your view or experience might reveal something they hadn’t thought about. You see it in politics all the time. Two ships passing in the fog, flares firing into the dark. It’s like trying to explain the beauty of free improvisation to Mrs. Forgen. She isn’t wrong to love what she knows, but if they won’t even listen to what’s unfamiliar, they miss what’s possible. Without that dialogue, all we do is play past each other – different songs, different rooms, too loud to hear any notes between them.