Happy holidays to all my have friends, and an wishing everyone the best of 2026 as we count down towards ending 2025 🎉🥳🎆
Having a listening ear is one quality many of us humans lack due to how the era we are in now has brought many kinds of distractions to us. I could say the world is so much in a rush which has complicated the lifestyles we humans has chose to live, leaving us with no choice than to always be on our heels 👠.
Many a-times we do not need just a listening ear but someone who could understand our situations, emotion, the troubles on our hands and and just a bit of advice to help put our heads together. I truly tell you that its always hard to get full attention from man, meaning humans.
I could also tell you that the main cause of distraction and not paying proper attention is because of how struggles of life keeps pushing us harder every now and then, putting everyone in a situation of “every man to himself. This has made many to only pay attention in the things the hope to gain something, and if not, “you are on your own”.
Am so very happy 😃 to have people who I always can count on when it comes to needing a listening ear. My family is number one, especially my immediate family, my husband and my daughters who are now grown ups because I always share my thoughts with them from time to time. I could tell you 💯that I count on my family for every support I need at all times. Although sometimes I might have poured out my heart to my husband before wanting extra support from my girls.
There is no situation I can not present to my family first because for years I have received lots of motivating advice and support from them, so I always hope to count on them without fear of being blamed or being criticized in any way because we are family and must always share our problems and happiness together.
Its truly not easy to find people who genuinely and truly want to hear you out without having one or two blames to pass to you. Although, I do also have some friends I can share my critical moments with but its not like family. Friends might give their time to listen to you , but might easily not pay too much of attention to you or give you the proper support you need because they might be caught up in their own problems as well. And sometimes, there are some stories you might not want to share with friends which you can confidently share with family to maintain privacy and avoid being ridiculed.
For me as a person I love listening to people with properly paying attention to them no matter how busy my schedules might be, because apart from the genuine advice I will give to the person or persons, I might also be learning one or two lessons from the situation they find themselves in which eventually might help me in the future. And its very important to be a genuine person that will not keep your friends situations secret.
We humans needs someone or people who are a good listeners, and those we can always trust because its so motivating to know you have someone to talk to when overwhelmed with situations and emotions. And make sure your story remains a secret with them is an added advantage.
However, my siblings and I also do share some intimate experiences when it comes to having a listening ear. We are all adults now and can understand the importance of being there for one another, especially in critical situations. So we count on each other for emotional support.
We should always watch out on peoples reactions when sharing our problems with them or seeking advice from them because through this we will get to know those who genuinely want to listen to us. Our personal problems are more safer with us than those who will just listen and not care.
This is my response to the #hiveleaners featured content for week 198, edition 01, “THE ART OF LISTENING”.
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