I haven't brought up a subject in the Chatter Forum in a while. And I suppose that this topic doesn't really belong anywhere else anyway. You've heard the old quote falsely attributed to Winston Churchill that says, "If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain." Well this is sort of along that line of thinking. As I ease into my retirement, I find that I spend more time listening to random people talk on the streets, in shops, in crowds, and in public generally. I have to admit, people are interesting creatures. They have lots to say to each other and really don't care who is within earshot. What I have noticed over many years and since retiring is that the younger you are, the more you like to talk. The older you get, the more you like to listen. I suppose this is obvious to some and unsurprising fact of the aging process to others. Then there are two offshoots of these groups that I find even more fascinating. The first is the young people that listen rather than talk. They are few and far between and we tend to call them old souls. You know the type. Quietly taking in everything without saying much, but when they do talk, they usually have a profound perspective years ahead of the biological ages. The second group is older people that have never learned to listen and never will. They never developed the listening skills older people generally develop and talk endlessly without saying anything meaningful because they love to talk so much. I can't say I am fond of this group. After a lifetime of never listening and always talking, they have very little of substance to add to any conversation but still can't find the time to listen to others. They just love to hear themselves drone on and on. Listening is far, far more interesting than talking. Why is it that some people never figure this out? I guess that we are an extroverted society and we love our talkers. We pay very little attention to our listeners. I think that we might just have that backwards. I know people here will be eager see their political foes as part of the second group purely for self-assurance and vindication of their own opinions. If they go there, they're missing the point. And more than anything, that speaks to which group they are a part of.
That's funny . . . why haven't I been infected with the unimpeachable truth CNN provides me? After all, I try to give both equal viewership when I use the treadmill.
I listened (or read) and there is some truth here. @toughcoins reply is very apt and should be listened to as well.
Baloney. The post is simply the musings of a bigot. No more and no less. It is a poor attempt at humblebrag, for no other reason than to attempt to convince others of their own personal self righteous position of the world. Maybe it is the result of watching to many movies.
He has never mentioned there is something wrong with his thyroid, as a result of that particular assumed infection.
