Monday, March 16, 2009
At the end of the day, I guess it is pretty clear that we all want to be heard one way or another. Maybe, just maybe a long time ago, we would have wanted to simply sit and listen. But that time has far gone. As we grow older, we grow to have more to talk about,are more confident of our views and tend to want to talk about them. And we also realise that if we go on listening, others are just not going to let us speak because they just have so much to talk about too!
Then again, so what if others were to sit silently and let us speaks? Half the time, their minds are probably formulating comments or thinking about their matters that they do not listen. Listen. that's the key word here. not just to hear.
This has gotten so bad that eventually, we come to this world - the internet world where we blog, leave comments, write personal messages on msn, let the world know what is going on with us via facebook and so many more. In a way, by leaving a footprint in this world, we are more likely to be "heard" (listen). This is because in between the timeframes when people are thinking of themselves, they would have some desire to know about others and these footprints allow for them to really "hear" us.
These spawn from the underlying need to be heard no matter what.
The Origin. 3/16/2009 05:53:00 am