About Me

 Why don’t we listen to another person?  They are talking and our ears are hearing, but we are not really listening.  Why?  Because we are all about the self.  We are trying to think of what we will say in response to whatever the other person is saying.  Or we have decided that our “truth” overcomes their “opinion.”  We wait for them to finish so we can show how smart we are, and how right we are.  We want to look good, and maybe even superior.  Listening is about becoming an “us.”  I think when we truly listen, stay open, don’t try to fill our mind with responses, then we begin to build an us.  The other person will sense this.  Our response might be to ask a question or to ask for more of what they are saying.  If we are interested only in ourself and what we can get from a relationship we are bound to a life of loneliness.