When someone comes to you to rant about an issue that may seem ‘insignificant’ to you, hear them out. And never tell them how other people have it worse and/or quote instances from your own life of issues that seem ‘bigger’ to you, completely disregarding their problem thus. For at times, all that people need is a person willing to listen to them, however little sense they make and simply be, if not anything else. And doing something of that sort does not just drive them further in their problem but also adds on a sense of insecurity and inferiority; and a guilt in them for having approached someone for an issue so ‘wee’, resulting into something as drastic as them never breaking out of their own shell and opening up again.
Doesn’t harm lending someone an ear for a while, does it?
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This is what the world needs more of – listeners.
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Yes, the world needs more listeners and kindness, too bad our world is too selfish everybody wants to talk and no one wants to really listen
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I agree. Plus, sometimes people just want to vent and only want us to listen and not comment.
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Yes, sometimes people just want to get something out of their chest; maybe that’s why sometimes people vent to total strangers knowing they will listen without judging
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True Nadine. Listening with compassion is so healing
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It can help to heal so many damaged souls
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True. I hate it when someone say “On the bright side, it’s not as bad as (namedrop)” Ugh!
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Yeah me too, it makes me so angry I just want to yell at them “why don’t you shut the fuck up?”
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Hahaha 😂 that so true.
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We don’t need a tongue to listen.
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Ah, if only more people think this way.
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