Listening instead of yacking
My job is to listen, but I have to say although I’m curious and interested, a lot of time I fall in the category of yacker, rather than listener. It is something I am actively trying to work on. But the other day I sat around a table when the subject of love came up and although, several times I wanted to say something, I kept my mouth shut because interestingly enough, one person was telling the other person what I had been trying to tell them for a while, while the other person was telling that person exactly what I wanted to tell her. So I listened and saw that they both were listening unlike what they had been doing with me.
One said she opens her heart to love even though she knows she might get hurt. The other said she wants to be in love if the right person came along. They talked back and forth and hopefully the one who keeps getting hurt heard that she needs to be more selective and the one who is not meeting the right person heard that she needs to open her eyes.