I keep seeing instances of people under-rating speaking and writing. You can look up "Does speaking help my brain?" and "Does writing help my brain?". It stands to reason that they do since your thinking and deciding what to say or write require use of your brain and coordination facilities.
Since speaking is quick and convenient, it is rather easy to dismiss speaking since we are very accustomed to doing it. Still, think about deciding what you want to talk ABOUT, deciding how to best word your comment, quickly using your brain and your lips and your tongue to enunciate the words you want.
All of that is an accomplishment and doing it makes it easier to do similar things again. Same with writing, especially handwriting. I don't handwrite for this post but I do for the notes I make to accumulate five possible topics for each day's post.
When you make a spoken comment, you can invite responses with your face, your wording and your tone. If you send a text or an email, you supply what is needed to make a response. When you respond to someone, you show your willingness to exchange words, comments, opinions. Even if you don't usually contact other people, you can select a likely recipient and phone, email, text or actually mail them a letter. If it is a little awkward to suddenly write to Oliver, you can simply communicate without mentioning the unusualness, or first draw attention to your understanding that you have never written or called before, but you have a hankering to touch base with him.
I forgot about Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and other social media but they are a possibility, too. If Olver is the sort of person who gets and sends dozens of comments each day, it may be worthwhile to try some other way of communicating than the usual one.
