Were you making an observation or lodging a complaint?

Are you noticing or criticizing?

Am I informing or bragging?

Am I sharing or lauding?

Does silence speak volumes or are the meanings so much background noise?

Where did the music go? 

Does the music go down when life gets too loud?

It's one thing or another.  Either/or, neither/nor, or both/and!

It depends... on our history.
It depends....on the state of our relationship.
It depends...on my mood at the moment.
It depends...on the condition our condition is in.

This or that. This or that.

The words might be the same but the way they're delivered will change the response.

This or that, tit for tat, good or bad…it all depends.

(I’ll try to remember my inclination to sort for the good.)