LISTEN Please?

We human, the creation of God was granted with a pair of ears for us to listen. Listening skills in the process of interaction between human communication is very important. Everyone can listen , but how well do we listen?

There are 3 types of listening skills, which are objective listening, active listening and empathic listening. Objective listening is to listen as much as possible to understand the speaker, while empathic listening is trying to understand what a person feels and means from his point of view. As for active listening, the use of appropriate verbal and non-verbal communication during interaction between people or in other words two way communication.

Well, when i was in secondary school, it was the hardest moment that I had gone through. That moment, I was having depression. The most basic thing that I need was my parents to listen to me. Everytime when I tried to tell something good or bad to my parents, they don't even have eye contact to me. Sometimes they even did not listen to me and wait for me to finish what i was trying to say, they had already changed the topic to something else or even not responded to me. Worst case, when I hadn't get into the main point, they had already assumed something else which i did not mean that way.

These few actions that they had done, brought several impacts on me. It gave me the feeling that it was better to keep the matter to myself rather than telling them. The most basic things that i need was just a listener, and not to be judgmental and assumptions, is it that difficult to be done?

In conclusion,listening skills are very important in every interaction. Try to listen to them, feel them and understand them. If not, we will easily come to a conclusion and make a wrong assumption. This not only will hurt that person's feeling, it also hurts that person's self-esteem, belongings needs and also miscommunication. Thank you.


Done by Hong Chun, Chrno.