Welcome to the Dialogue Experiment

It is almost certain that at some point in our lives we have all wondered what other people might think if they took the time to listen in to our conversations.  We say thousands of things a day, conversations that are often mundane, sometimes funny, occasionally shocking and that have the power to make us cry, shake our worlds and leave us lost.  The things we say make up so much of who we are, and yet we don't even notice the millions of words that pass our lips.  We rarely consider the ways in which our words shape our lives.  Wars have been fought over conversations.  Hearts have been made and broken through the careless tossing of a few simple words.  It can be frightening when you realize how much a simple conversation can change the world.
   It is for this reason that I have decided to create The Dialogue Experiment.  The aim is simple:  to collate ten short snatches of real life conversation captured out of context, and to narrate a vision of the world using the fragmented things that everyday people say.  There is only one rule:  the pieces of conversation used in this blog must originate from true spoken conversation.  No text messages, online conversations or Twitter updates allowed.  The reason for this is that, with so much of what we say now reserved for the disconnection of online and digital media, we are losing the power of our personal voice.  The purpose of this experiment is to draw out the beauty of our words.  To demonstrate that what we say does matter, and that ordinary people can have the power to say things that can change the world.