On Listening

I love to listen. I like to talk a lot too. I have opinions about everything but I love to listen. It first came as a need and then as a gift that I give to others now. I wanted to be a person that people like and the thing that topped the list in every self-help video, book or an article was to listen. I worked on the skill for years. Along the way, I realised how much people want to to be heard. Becasue no one is ready to listen to anyone, either they are not interested or they want to talk first. Now, after all these years, it still requires some effort to get into the listening mode but it is comparatively much easier. I love how people have so many amazing stories to share and how beautiful they are - men and women, both. You just look at them and listen what they have to share. They have so many amazing thoughts inside them. They observe everything like you and have opinions about small things. They have such subtle difference in perspective to you that you get amazed. When you…