It's sometimes weirdly funny when I see two people having a conversation but both of them talk. A simple example is when their topic is about spending their holiday. At the same time, one person says, "Yesterday I visited a beautiful beach in my hometown", while the other person says, "The food in ABC Restaurant was super delicious."None of them stops talking until they finish the sentence. It becomes much funnier when one of them increases the volume of his voice. It surely means that he wants to be heard; he feels that he and his story are much more important than the other one's story.
That example above indicates that most people want to be heard. If so, who will listen? If everyone wants to be heard, no one will be able to listen. No one doesn't have the willingness to listen. If a person does listen to someone's speech, his intention of listening is only to reply. For a beginner listener, that's still okay. But a real listening is not that simple.
When a person speaks louder than usual, there are some emotions there: pride, anger, or maybe happiness. Yes, the content is always clear. But if we listen deeper about how he delivers his content, we can know and sense many things. In my opinion, this kind of deep listening can be exercised by doing simple things every day. And that is by enjoying many kinds of sounds, from the sound of a falling leaf to the sound of many speeding trucks passing by. Happy listening.
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