Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Listen for a bit
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." - Bill CosbyTo please everyone is likely to be impossible, so the question is whom shall we please. To please the people around us,to please the people you care for or to please yourself?
Conciously, we strive to be pleasant to the ones we care about, and inevitably, we neglect everyone else. Sometimes the problem is as simple as being too aware of yourself. You can analyze ever single action just to please one person, whilst that is the fault.
I believe that for one to succeed, one first has to be at ease with oneself. If one has to go out of ones way to present an image that one hopes to maintain and please others, then one is not true to one's heart. Just as how there is a distinction between courtesy and insincerity.
People exists on this world for varied reasons, and it would not do one good to pretend to appreciate the person. People only ask that one be true to them, for a sincere connection, without which, any attachment or relationship is merely empty words.
Maybe a good listening ear is all one needs sometimes. Question is how good a listener am I underneath it all? Secondly, who will listen to me?
Just apply the 5 Ws and 1H. Eventually, my defences will dissolve to reveal more.
---Mood: Sagely
Location: Hall 16
Listening to: nothing
Gavin
pondered @ 22:54
