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Sunday, August 06, 2006

Listening

I don't get why when you have something to say or you have a peace of knowledge about a subject people don't listen. Maybe that is to general, really it is people in general who are the most receptive to what you have to say but the people I am talking about are the people who are closest to you. These people are the people who should listen to you the most but instead these are the people who are most likely to make fun of what you say or worse disregard it all together.

It seems like anytime you have a group of people in any type of setting (family, friends, church) and one of the members of that group goes and changes in anyway and then returns the people in the group are resistant to the change that happened to the one who left. I don't understand why it is this way, The theory would be that if this situation happened that the group would want to learn from the one that left but instead it seems that the group would shun any change in the person and insist on the same old person. This seems counterproductive to me.

2 comments:

Christopher Warren said...

As if change is our life-blood, but we are vampires who don't believe in blood-sucking?

Anonymous said...

I hope, very seriously, that if you are talking about people inside your home, that you would piss and moan and scream and shout until you were listened to. You know...the whole comunication thing.