Monday, November 20, 2006 @9:53 AM

i read this very nice er, thing in chicken soup (:

please listen
when i ask you to listen to me
and you start giving me advice,
you have not done what i asked.
when i ask you to listen to me
and you begin to tell me why
i shouldn't feel that way,
you are trampling on my feelings.
when i ask you to listen to me
and you feel you have to do something to solve my problem,
you have failed me,
strange as it may seem.
listen! all i ask is that you listen.
don't talk or do - just hear me.
advice is cheap; 20 cents will get
you both drea abby and billy graham
in the same newspaper.
and i can do for myself; i am not helpless.
maybe discouraged and faltering,
but not helpless.
when you do something for me that i can
and need to do for myself,
you contribute to my fear and inadequacy.
but when you accept as a simple fact
that i feel what i feel,
no matter how irrational,
then i can stop trying to convince
you and get about this business
of understanding what's behind this irrational feeling.
and when that's clear, the answers are
obvious and i don't need advice.
irrational feelings make sense when
we understand what's behind them.
perfaps that's why prayer works, sometimes,
for some people - because god is mute,
and he doesn't give advuce or try
to fix things.
god just listens and lets you work it out for yourself.
so please listen, and just hear me.
and if you want to talk, wait a minute
for your turn- and i will listen to you.

it really spoke to me. that i should shut up and listen. there no need for advice, no need for solving problems. all i need is to shut up, and listen.

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CHARIS;

life ain't always about receiving, it's more about giving.

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