Do you hear what I am saying???

We have so much chatter going on now. If you count computer chats in, our lives are filled with em. Yet, I wonder whether people hear what we are saying. Cos very often, upon 're-conversation', I notice that many things said in a conversation actually never registered. And sometimes you walk away feeling, it's just a polite front that the other person put up.

People hear but they don't listen. Perhaps I should rephrase too, people read but they don't register. Hearing without listening, reading with comprehension. They're the same. My F5 students just sat for their Trial Exam.... this year, I must have done the format of a formal letter 3-4 times! Yet not a single one of them got it right! Unbelievable that something as simple as a layout didn't even register. And while each of the lesson was going on, most of them nodded their head and said they won't forget.

To be a good friend... one of the essentials; to be a good listener. But these days, I guess most of us are too buried in our own problems to listen to others' problems. "Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone." Old age wisdom that still holds true.