Listening- The basic trait turned art

Listening is something that allows you to reflect, perceive and also simultaneously enjoy what the other person has to offer and that too without uttering a word and yet we are busy with just explaining our narratives and defending our illogical arguments (which to us seems logical) presuming and expecting the other person to listen without doing the same in return. Most of our time we listen but we don't realize it consciously. Throughout our day, we are listening to our mind, heart, intuition or changes in the immediate environment. Even while having a quarrel, we are listening but we are listening to the wrong voice i.e. your own. We are constantly listening to ourselves too but till the time you realize it, it is perhaps too late because the quarrel maybe over by then in which you might have hurt the person you love or uttered things that you weren't supposed to and finally end up regretting which is the sort of pain that does not benefit you.

Listening is the first step in creating something from zero to one because listening means you are open about everything the other person has to offer. The desire for fulfilling genuine curiosity starts with listening and listening deeply. The next most important thing is to master the art of questioning. Listening is even more beautiful when you have mastered the art of questioning while you could actually make a career out of it. Right questions would allow you to enter into a completely fascinating universe that permits the person you are conversing with to shape and nurture it and to sum it up; this would give an idea about the power of conversation and the power is truly limitless from making you virtually time travel, diving deep into the other person's mind to making you question reality or just as basic as understanding the crux of a subject. Listening is perhaps the only way that can genuinely uplift your mind and intellect without you making an active conscious effort and the importance and beauty of this is sadly understood by few. 

The human mind is meant to chase desires and desires are not evil and in saying that what you desire, how much you desire and till what extent could you go to fulfill that desire also plays a pivotal role. It is the minimal and the absolutely prioritized few desires that you devote most of your time will decide the direction of your life. This is where the magnificent idea of perception comes into the picture. In reality there is no truth, there are only perceptions. Everything is relative and based on the moral judgment of the individual because the world you live in is created by your own mind.

It is amusing to find people who term life as meaningless but the truth is they are nothing but victims of narrow perception and individuals that have hardly had any meaningful life experiences. They merely look at life as endpoints and those endpoints are basically life should have one meaning or not at all and perhaps this is what gave birth to- Focus on process not on outcome. The fact also lies in the conditioning- If you want to follow, then you want everything to be assigned (including the meaning of life) but if you are a leader, you create one. This is where just listening to great minds would allow them to not just look at life but visualize it. All it requires is time and willingness rest everything is readily available.  In this age of abundance, accessibility and availability, it is essential to be woke about your experiences, habits and the environment you function in. I just want to conclude by saying that if you want to be heading in the right direction, it is very crucial to take those important first step and by the way if you didn't realize you did exactly that in these last few minutes!