7th Feb 2021 The Sky is the limit
well I had better sleep,in 2 hour chunks so that is good
Been watching series 2 of comedy CSI
very dramatic, and disturbing
I hope the CSI girl gets her man, but I'll have to wait and see
the thing I DO NOT LIKE ABOUT KOREA
is the Corruption, as shown in Kdramas, it's saddening
In The Good Manager he wants to go to Denmark
and now I know why
That aside I still have my Korean dream
a new Korean wife and to produce 4 kids to form a Kpop band
though obviously that won't happen, I'll be dead first
Though God is good as my mother always said
So you could be in Seoul now but end up beside me in Birmingham
I hope you bring have loads of money as I have none
Gangham Style, or you have a takeaway nearby
Enough here's a random piece to keep you going
there may or may not be something new later
Lessons
in Listening ©
By
Michael Casey
This
should be about the World’s events this Jan 29th 2017, but there are
enough people talking about it so I’ll let others do that. I will say though,
and you all just knew I’ll say that I’d just say. I live in Birmingham, my
parents were from County Kerry Eire, and they came here in 1944 when the war
was on. My wife is a Shanghai girl and we have 2 bilingual daughters, one of
whom dreams of being a Doctor, the other may be the next Julie Walters or a PhD
in something else. My best friend is a little Indian guy who has a PhD too, if
you hang around with clever people you appear clever by association, oh by the
way my friend’s family were from Calcutta.
I’ve
started a new paragraph so you can skip the 1st if you have low
tolerance for major news stories. I decided tonight to write about Listening,
obviously we all listen every day, and you can guess what my last sentence
might be before I’ve even started on tonight’s piece.
So why do
we listen? To get what we want and to give what we want, we listen. Can I have
a Cadbury’s Crunchie please? And Neil in the corner shop, who is Indian, will
give you a Cadbury’s Crunchy. He also give you your change. Every simple
interaction in a shop is about asking and receiving, we do it all the time when
we go shopping.
When I’m
in Aldi I’ll ask the crew where is this or where is that and they will tell me
and I’ll go away happy with my precooked in a Kiln Salmon pieces, and they are
delicious by the way, and I don’t explode the salon in our microwave any more.
Life is all about asking and then receiving. Seeking and then finding, doors
are even opened for us, such as fridge doors in Aldi. The religious amongst you
will have spotted the Biblical reference.
The point
being that by being courteous we have a smoother Society, I listen to you and
you listen to me. I know from experience that listening does make a difference.
If you work in a 4 star deluxe hotel for 3 years as I did then all day every
day you are listening. You are there to please the guest, if you do its good
for the hotel and they come back.
Ours was
a new build, I even had my interview in a porta-cabin. The thing we are taught
and learn is that people like to be listened to, it takes no effort and does
make all the difference, especially when they are complaining wherever you are
working. If you let people blow off steam then they calm down sooner, ask any
Police you know they will agree.
The week
I started at the hotel was the week my dad died, I went to visit him on the
Tuesday the 2nd day of the new job and he died on the Saturday, so
Joy and Pain all came calling in the same week. The hotel and Jonathon Walker
were very kind to me. I had spent years visiting my dad every single day in the
old people’s home and there I listened to him. It’s now 15 years since he died.
You are
company for your old dad or mum or aunty or the old cantankerous woman in the
flat above. Listening and sharing a cup of disgusting tea DOES make a
difference even if its just that you appreciate a good cuppa after your
sacrificial cuppa you force yourself to drink with the horrid lady upstairs.
There are millions of people the world over who appreciate a kind word, or help
finding white bread on the shelf in Aldi when their eyes are too old, or they
don’t read English.
For me
listening isn’t just about being charitable, its about being Irish, as having
Irish blood means I enjoy a story, little wonder I’ve ended up as a writer with
one million words on the page. I did spend decades talking to my dad enjoying
all the stories even if I’d heard them many many times before.
Listening
to BBC Radio 4 is all about listening as its speech radio, not music or
background music. I smile when I see kids heading for cramming courses nearby I
want to tell their pushy parents to buy a radio and glue the dial to BBC Radio
4. Its worth a 2 grade improvement in itself. Why waste your money on a
crammer, best of all when 5000 people apply for the 500 places at grammar
school. In passing our local school is in the top 2% in the entire country,
Discipline makes a difference, as does Listening to the Teacher.
The
greatest thing we do in life is listening to another person, and when we listen
our defences are lowered. If you can make somebody laugh then barriers come
tumbling down, they want to listen to you because you make them laugh, you make
them happy.
We
appreciate each other and then because we have listened we can love. If you
like making love is the perfect act of listening, which may explain why real
ugly comedians have the prettiest wives.
No comments:
Post a Comment