Listening as love and defiance
Mostly
We don’t listen.
Mostly
We wait to talk.
In a world full of people
Waiting to talk
Listening is defiance.
A remarkable act of love.
Listening is
Setting aside time
Setting aside judgment
Setting aside our instinct to fix and solve
Setting aside our tendency to oversimplify
And setting aside our own problems
Long enough
To experience
The nuanced reality
Someone else is living in.
When was the last time
You listened to someone this way?
When was the last time
Someone listened to you this way?
It’s rare.
And incredibly powerful.
Nothing transforms
Without it.