It helps to have canned fallback responses. Mine is “I know, right?” in a dry/sarcastic tone. It works for any comment and most questions, because it’s a meaningless affirmation
It even works when you fumble, it’s so vague you can use it to reply to a question and recover
The issue is that the conversation usually falls falt if the only thing you offer is that kind of empty response. And I’m pretty bad at finding a middle ground between responses that are too negative (my life tends to be kinda shit compared to most people’s) or too deep and responses that are too meaningless even for small talk (like talking about the weather).
It helps to have canned fallback responses. Mine is “I know, right?” in a dry/sarcastic tone. It works for any comment and most questions, because it’s a meaningless affirmation
It even works when you fumble, it’s so vague you can use it to reply to a question and recover
The issue is that the conversation usually falls falt if the only thing you offer is that kind of empty response. And I’m pretty bad at finding a middle ground between responses that are too negative (my life tends to be kinda shit compared to most people’s) or too deep and responses that are too meaningless even for small talk (like talking about the weather).