You're Not Listening To Me . . .

Listen:  To accept advice or obey instruction; to agree or assent. 

Sometimes I don't have jack to say.

I have a note written shortly after one of my counseling sessions where the therapist said: "We can talk about this forever and you're never going to be able to understand it or fix it."  I have no recollection what the topic was.  The point was that sometimes things are as they are.  The world is uncontrollable.  The workings of the mind are a mystery.

I have another note from a friend who responded to my assertion that I was feeling "very uncomfortable.  

She said: "Very uncomfortable may be a messenger from deep within that wants to be heard.  Relax, breathe, listen, trust your beautiful self."

So often it's compelling to want to change things.  So often we want to change what we find.  That isn't the point of listening.