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Wednesday, April 12, 2006

When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving advice, you have not done what I asked.
When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn't feel that way, you are trampling on my feelings.
When I ask you to listen to me and you feel you have to do something to solve my problems, you have failed me, strange as that may seem.
Listen! All I asked, was that you listen.
Not talk or do - just hear me.Advice is cheap: 50 cents will get you both Dear Abby and Billy Graham in the same newspaper.
And I can do for myself; I'm not helpless. Maybe discouraged and faltering, but not helpless.
When you do something for me that I can and need to do for myself, you contribute to my fear and weakness.
But when you accept as a simple fact that I do feel what I feel, no matter how irrational, then I quit trying to convince you and can get about the business of understanding what's behind this irrational feeling.
And when that's clear, the answers are obvious and I don't need advice.Irrational feelings make sense when we understand what's behind them.
Perhaps that's why prayer works, sometimes, for some people - because God is mute, and doesn't give advice or try to fix things, God just listens and lets you work it out for yourself.
So, please listen and just hear me, and, if you want to talk, wait a minute for your turn, and I'll listen to you.

-Courtesy of Jun Xian's blog

Maybe this is what I can, or should say to THE Freaking bunch of Sec 2s. Although this doesn't fit into the context perfectly. I just had a terrible morning. And now I understand the Literal meaning of drowning my voice. I couldn't even hear what Freaking shiat i was trying to tell them. And three of them are in Council? Gag me. But it's true. Whatthefish. Meeting this bunch of sec 2s for the first time and not bringing my handphone to work doesn't make my life Any better.

Charmaine.@9:44 AM
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