Listen more, talk less.

There is a reason why Allah created us having two ears but only one mouth, why a fetus in the womb can hear first around the age of four month before being able to see. It is better and easier to listen than to talk but yet we always prefer to talk than to listen. I guess this entry is an advise more for myself than for you, readers.

While listening, we are always thinking what we want to say back and thus, missing the point altogether. We are not really 'listening'. We are busy with our own thought.

Listening can help a lot. Someone planning to commit suicide can reconsider his/her decision if there is someone out there to listen to his/her problem. We don't necessarily have to provide a solution or an option. Just being there to listen means a great deal already.

Sometimes when we do listen, we choose to listen to the wrong person. Like listening to a praise from a person who have an agenda on us. Time and experience will tell us who to listen to.

The most important person to listen to is someone very close to us. Which we sometime overlook because we tend to take those close to us for granted. Like a mother failing to listen her child but have time for friends. Or worst still a husband having time to listen to buddies but not to the wife.

Listening means we care. I must make a point to listen more especially to my husband and my kids. There's a lot of space for improvement.

Good luck. May Allah bless us.