Listen Up!

Everyone seems to have a neighbor story, a city, or governmental agency story. A story of wasted time and energy. These arguments are generally meaningless in the overall scheme of things.  Why do we insist on standing our meaningless ground?  “Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong” …For What It’s Worth…

I had dinner the other night with a couple of pals.  We had a great chat covering a number of subjects but one that was all to common. We all gave advice on fixing the disagreements with building authorities or neighbors.  It reminded me of the male need “to fix” things.  I have been criticized often by my female companions that they did not want me to “fix” anything.  They just wanted me to listen.  If you just listen the argument goes away.  We just want to be heard. The male DNA is to fix it even if we cannot.  I am listening, I am listening but I cannot help myself. I have to try to fix it.  So here we were the three of us trying to fix things. 

I had a recent disagreement with two my old neighbors.  The disagreement was so incredibly  meaningless I will not spend the time to describe what these two old men were bitching about to me.  Instead of participating or trying to “fix it” ---  I just walked away.  Like magic two days later, the problem went away.  I listened to their nonsensical, meaningless complaint, turned and walked away ----

I think  women may be on to something….