Listening- A Lost Art!

Among the various arts that have taken the backstage, one of them not technically a form of art, but the fact that mastering it needs some nerves makes it an art. Gone are those days, when people used to lend you an ear and listen to what you speak, at least the sensible talk let alone the blabbering. It so happens that the moment you want to put out your mind, you already find the other putting it out despite of the fact that he/ she was supposed to be on the receiver side in the first place.

Everyone wants to talk, but no one wants to listen, decipher and respond. Though they seem to listen they can’t decipher it, but they tend to divert the topic and turn the tables and all of a sudden your conversation is down the drain and you find yourself drowning in theirs. Well that is altogether a different form of art.

It would not be much of a disappointment when you are cut off the moment when you start to utter something, or rather start a conversation or share something, but, when your mind is braided with thoughts and you start running with them and if someone pulls the plug that is when one loses it, I mean seriously loses it. Well, we all know who belongs to this category, at least the working cadre of IT sector knows, The Manager. (Pun intended)

People now a day have seriously lost the impulse to listen, they surrender the moment you start to share something, though it is related to them, let alone the things that are remotely concerned to them. One could find only a handful of them who actually listen and respond, well, that means you mean a lot to them.

Everyone wants to burst their minds out, shout and scream and always wants the other to lend their ears, but, they tend to forget that the coin has two sides, well this, my friend is a two way, you can’t have your own way, and in the process no one really has the gist of what other said. Happens to me all the time, when I speak with my Mom.

I don’t remember the last time when I spoke something sensible with someone, and even if I did I don’t recall it, that makes it even worse, because that indicates my ears have been fed with quite a lot of junk already and my thoughts are lying somewhere down in the heap of crap. Yes offense. 

Adding to this, when you take a moment for yourself, cool down and tend to be sober, you are caught on the wrong foot, and find yourself being blamed for being rude and careless. Well you have to understand, you are being ignored, who hard is it to pick up that kind of sign? Seriously, grow a brain.

I miss those days when we friends sat and talked for hours together, with most of the conversations still being recalled till date, people have evolved now, they have grown a another mouth and have cut down on their hearing organs and ergo no conversation lasts for a couple of minutes and anything beyond that is most of the times- nonsense!

And, all those who listen, keep up the good work, if it weren’t for you hell would have broken loose long ago and most of us would have been scrambling here and there for an ear!

Adios.