Greetings!
One of the skills I have always love to possess is the listening skill and this is because not everyone has or possesses the skill. In fact, I'm one of those who lack the skill, although, I can say I'm coming up gradually, but to say the fact, I don't so much listen to people as I ought to.
Having talked about the listening skill, I would like to delve into the topic of the prompt before me today which is about, “the art of listening.”
One thing according to the topic of the prompt is that, listening is an art and because of this, it must be mastered. I have seen a lot of skills in my life which range from writing, which I'm currently doing to reading and to speaking skill.
However, out of all these skills, there's one that in my own opinion is above all of these other skills and that one is the listening skill. It takes wisdom to have the listening skill because as for so many people, their lack of impatience has affected their listening skill.
For someone like me and as I said earlier, I'm not good at listening to others and this is because of my impatience to hear out what others are saying.
Despite the fact that Ihave been told on several occasions that it's good to listen than to speak, I have never yielded to such an advice, however, recently when I was listening recently to a friend of mine, I decided to pay rapt attention to him and it's then I realized there were sense in what he was telling me and it's since then that I changed from listening on the surface level to listening deep.
When the guy, the friend of mine asked me on what I thought about what he had discussed with me and I responded and share my view with him, he was shock with surprise as he would not have thought I would have responded that way as he had known me to be someone who would only listen to the one speaking on a surface level. He asked me what had happened for me to have listened so deep to him while listening and I responded to him that there's nothing.
However deep inside me, I knew a change has literally taken place and i too was happy with myself.
Seeing such change in myself now made me to remember some of my friends who are found of doing the same thing. Someone like Sammy, my best friend would not change anytime soon from his habit of shallow listening. Although, it's not that he would not hear you out, but one thing is that, he never listen to you on a deeper level as you would have love him to do and when you ask him as to his opinion about the issue, he will never have anything substantial to say.
People have complained about this to him but all to no avail. It's when people have seen no changes in him that they have stopped telling him to change. However, I think that very soon, he too would change from this unlistenable habit.
This is my entry to the week 198, Edition 01 of the weekly Featured contest in the Hive Learners community.
Thanks for reading.
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