I'm usually quiet but given a chance ( and maybe couple of beers) I can be quite the opposite. Specially if there is a chance to talk about something I'm passionate about I can just keep going. Maybe even too much so that I bore people to death telling them about something the might not be so interested in.
Sometimes it feels like this hapens because of some sort of panic reaction. When I finally have the chance I can't just let it go. I need to take everything out of it.
I might be a good listener and somewhat ok speaker, but what I'm lacking is the balance between those two. I can't do them both at the same time, in same conversation. Instead of keeping it a monologue I should focus more on making it into an actual conversation with both sides getting a chance to express themselves.
I'm sorry of you have ever had to listen my winding stories. But it meant a lot to me so I also want to thank you for listening.