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[sid] => 4297
[catid] => 1
[aid] => mick
[title] => *Just Listen To Me*
[time] => 2002-09-26 09:10:00
[hometext] => I wrote this to a friend who is innocent in everything she does. She never does anything wrong. But the one thing she did wrong was not listen to what I had to say!
[bodytext] => When I ask you to listen to me
and you start giving me advice, you have not done what I asked. When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn't feel that way, you are trampling on my feelings. When I ask you to listen to me and you feel that you have to do something to solve my problem. You have failed me, strange as that may seem. Listen! All I ask is that you listen. Don't talk or do--just hear me. Advice is cheap; 20 cents, will get you little. And I can do for myself; I am not helpless. Maybe discouraged and faltering, but I sure ain't helpless. When you do something for me that I can and need to do for myself, you contribute to my pain and fears. But when you accept it as a simple fact that I feel what I feel, no matter how irrational, and I behave the way I behave, no matter how silly, and do what I do, no matter how bad it is. Then I can stop trying to convince you and get on about this buisness of understanding what's behind these irrational feelings, behavior, and actions. And when that's clear, the answers are obvious and I don't heed the advice. Irrational feelings, behavior, and actions make sense when we understand what's behind them. Perhaps that's why prayer works, sometimes, for some people--because God is mute and he doesn't give advice or try to fix things. God just listens and let's us work it out for ourselves. So please listen and just hear me. And if you want to talk, wait a minute for your turn, and then I will listen to you. I admit that I do need help, but do not worry because I know. And I am gettting it. I realized my ways were wrong, and that I couldn't live my life this way. It's just not healthy, and I have so much to look forward to in my life. So I am turnning my life around. I'm not doing this for anyone or anything except myself. And I know I cannot stand alone. So if you'd please, please help me through this. Stand with me. [comments] => 1 [counter] => 157 [topic] => 7 [informant] => Val [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => HumorPoetry )
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