Long To Listen And Look. Slow To Speak.

 Do you believe it to be true that we have two eyes, two ears, and 1 mouth for a specific reason? 

Could it be that we should look twice, listen twice, and only then speak once... 

It's two sides of the same coin to say that repetition is key. Because on the one hand that means one person will speak multiple times, potentially using the same words. 

But then one person gets to listen all those times to potentially better absorb the information. 

Thus perhaps one is not inherently better than the other. Speaking cannot be better than listening because you cannot have one without the other. 

Just as giving cannot be better than receiving because in each gift there is a taking on the other side, in some fashion, otherwise there is no giving. 

In our world, it seems that there is always an equal and opposite reaction.

Does that sounds familiar? 

Oh yeah, Newton's third law. I guess it's a law for a reason. 

As humans, as meaning-making-machines, we take a law of the universe, and prescribe emotion. 

Perhaps, if we can take the time to be still, and view things as what they are, which is just a coin with two sides. Then maybe we can better process, and connect, objectively. 

I see now though that I've been much more focused on speaking than listening and looking as of late. 

I think I'll focus on the other side of the same coin for now to see what's there.