How To Listen.

Learning how to listen is a quality everyone should posses in their life. Those who refuse to listen are those who let it build up and boil up inside. They don't want to listen

because they're t

oo scared to face the truth or too scared to hear something they don't wanna hear. Personally, for me. I'd rather sit down and settle things like an adult,listen to other peoples point of view before saying my own argument, it seems like the proper way to do it. Instead of having a problem with one person, bringing it up with another and adding fuel to the already rather large fire than dousing the fire and bringing the issue up with the people you had a problem with in the first place. I don't know, I am no Peter Perfect but I'd rather work things out civilly. Those who listen recognise their flaws and ask for help to fix them. While I've been spending time alone lately I've had a lot of time to think. If people are so ready to pass blame and not recognise in them selves that they've done something wrong then how can they possibly be

content living knowing that it is always everyone else's fault but theirs. Are they really so wrapped up in themselves that they don't stop to think for a second that maybe you did contribut

e to the problem?

In my little thinking bubble, I also went down the path of people walking out of my life. Should I walk after them? Run after them and beg them to turn around and come back? I decided against the chasing, cause if thesepeople are so content in walking away from a friendship then who am I to stop them? No, I have tried before, raised concerns and asked them to think for a second. No longer will I be doing this, because if they're willing to do that then they're obviously not worth my time and effort. Those who stick around I am thankful for. Those who I never argue with because they also know how to listen and work problems out like an adult. I am nearing 20 so in my 19 years and nearly 7 months of living I have learnt something ... People just want to be heard, and who am I to stop them from voicing their opinion. Letting people have their say leads to calmer happier people, and I am glad to be one of those people and to be surrounded by them. I call them my family and my friends.

I love my best friends; Lana, Chantelle and Mel. They honestly mean the world to me. Regar

dless of the time or where we are of what we're doing we're always there for each other.Always able to talk on the phone, able to talk each other out of bad decisions and always able to make each other smile. Chantelle has known me the longest and honestly no mater how long we go without seeing each other we can pick up where we left off and continue to be great. Haha. Mel, she's like me because she's Croatian ... she understands my stubborn personality and will tell me like it is. Lana is the best kinda best friend you can have, just amazing and stunningly beautiful inside and out. :D They're the closest I have to sisters and I'm glad to have them around.