Tuesday, April 28, 2015

107th - LISTEN, NOT JUST HEAR

"Rule 107th: If others talk at the table be attentive, but talk not with Meat in your Mouth".

A very basic and fundamental way to conduct oneself on any given setting. More importantly, the ability to simply lend a full ear is a trait that is becoming jurassic as is with basic speech.

What with the advent of techie gears, which counterintuitely supposed to make our human experience, well, more human.

I am again guilty of this. 

That is why my fundamental rule of thumb when were together as family is to "Yes to Talk and No to Tech". 

It is simply distasteful to see people together in a lunch or dinner table but see them tinker more with their smart thingy than strike a good conversation..

Believe in Goethe when he said " Conversation, a good one, is the most sublime of all human experience".

Let it be so.


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