Life quotes about listening9/1/2023 ![]() ![]() "But you still have not answered my question about where you are." He listened patiently and intently, as if he had all the time in the world, until I finished several hours later. ![]() Still, I told him about my distant and recent past and about my inexplicable depressions. However, I noticed that I was still being sidetracked from getting answers to my questions. “.he asked, "Where are you today, right now?"Įagerly, I started talking about myself. In such cases all the string can do, in whatever its form, is conduct a person’s silence.” Sometimes no length of string is long enough to say the thing that needs to be said. When the world grew bigger, and there wasn’t enough string to keep the things people wanted to say from disappearing into the vastness, the telephone was invented. Others say it was started by a man who held the end of a string that was unraveled across the ocean by a girl who left for America. Some say it is related to the irrepressible urge to press shells to our ears, to hear the still-surviving echo of the world’s first expression. The practice of attaching cups to the ends of string came much later. The physical distance between two people using a string was often small sometimes the smaller the distance, the greater the need for the string. Shy people carried a little bunch of string in their pockets, but people considered loudmouths had no less need for it, since those used to being overheard by everyone were often at a loss for how to make themselves heard by someone. There was a time when it wasn’t uncommon to use a piece of string to guide words that otherwise might falter on the way to their destinations. ![]() On rainy days, you can hear their chorus rushing past: IwasabeautifulgirlPleasedon’tgoItoobelievemybodyismadeofglass-I’veneverlovedanyoneIthinkofmyselfasfunnyForgiveme…. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. ![]()
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