listen amy listen listen listen listen keep listening. 981016 ... blind huh? 981020 ... caty okay 981021 ... thenestor A lot of folks listen. Not too many really hear. Or maybe a lot of people hear but not too many really listen. I can't remember which one is right. I must not have heard it very well. 981120 ... tri kota Listen it is raining outside. it is raining and fepending on how long you will listen you could hear the rain turn into anow and did you notice how it got just a little bit quieter? it is so quiet that it is almost quite strange how now that the rain dissappeared and the snow quieted itself how the heart is not there anymore 990113 ... kirstin "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Listen,.....nevermind" 990330 ... jennifer i have this friend Jerry, who, when he's high is constantly telling everyone else to SHHHHHHH SHHHHHH and if we're all quiet enough, at the very moment when our thoughts cease, when our minds stop for a moment, he is absollutely sure that there is a WOOOOOOOOSSSSHHHHHhh i think i heard it yesterday 991209 ... camille Like this... 000104 ... lotusflower i'm sorry if it doesn't seem like i'm listening but i really am. 000212 ... doggy Behind the radiator and computer hum is the sound of dinosaurs pushing their water dishes around the linoleum floor with their noses. 000318 ... virus - don't just wait for your turn to talk. 000327 ... silentbob she just needed someone to listen. and i was there. i just needed someone to LISTEN! and there she was...she had been before, but never there. and here she was. it was all so stellar...carrying love in the palm of my hand. 000613 ... MollyCule If you'd stopped to listen to me for only one minute maybe you'd realize that everything i said was a warning 001016 ... akira to the words and sounds, for they may help you decide. 001201 ... tit i talk so much in hopes that one day i will find the one that listens. not to what i say, the funny jokes, concerned lectures, big words, but to what i dont say. i need to find the one that hears the crying in my laughter, the one that sees the personal urgency in my advice. i need to find someone that hears my silences. then i can stop talking so much because i wont be as scared 010322 ... Alexander Beetle deaf as a post, won't do no good anyway 010629 ... tit listen slowly to me when i talk so fast play my tears in reverse find the root, the cause, the begining 010707 ... abraham lincoln Four whores and seven rears ago...our whorefathers came to this great nation cause they fucked up the other one! 010731 ... piercedjenny when you listen, please hear what i'm not saying, because thats what i need you to know. 011112 ... ever dumbening didacts and narpets 011116 ... blue star Don't listen to me. I'm on crack. Love me anyway. 020422 ... bageler listen to love, don't listen to hate 020423 ... ~gez~ dont mearly hear me. listen to me 020826 ... LIL CHRIS I wish you would just listen to what I have to say. The words that I want to tell you mean so much to me. At times all you want to do is the talking and u don't let me tell you how I feel inside. Do you really have to do all the talking? Is it more important than what I have to say? 020829 ... devalis Please Listen 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 tome 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 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 both Dear Abby and Billy Graham in the same newspaper. And I can do for myself; I am not helpless. Maybe discouraged and faltering, but not helpless. When you do something for me that I can and need to do for myself, you contribute to my fear and inadequacy. But when you accept as a simple fact that I feel what I feel, no matter how irrational, then I can stop trying to convince you and get about this business of understanding what's behind this irrational feeling. And when that's clear, the answers are obvious and I don't need advice. Irrational feelings 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 lets you work it out for yourself. So please listen, and just hear me. And if you want to talk, wait a minute for your turn- and I will listen to you. Author Unknown 020829 ... casinoboyjaysen I listened to what she was telling me: I don't want to talk about him, or have you play saviour. I don't want to tell you about the bruises, the split lip, because it makes it real. I don't want you to "take me away from it all" but just to be my friend. I won't marry you. I don't want to be with you in that way. I heard all that from the tears welling up in your eyes, and trickling down over your bruised, swollen face. 020913 ... Reverend Lough ....for once. ....instead of talking, instead of always trying to have the final word. ....you may just hear or learn something that you didn't know. 021217 ... jenny are you listening? do you ever listen? do you even care about anyone but yourself? have you heard one word that i have said? do you even care what i think about or i hope for or i wish? do you know who i really am or are you just in this for my looks? how do i know that your true? please tell me 021221 ... imposter I listened to it for the first tonight since probably that first weekend, lying on her bed in the dark with it on repeat, wrapped in each other. It really helped bring things back to basics for me. comfortable now. . . hope? Hope is a dangerous thing. But please, don't stop me -- I like it. 030914 ... realistic optimist if you're still and listen long enough, you'll get better at it. 030914 ... Nukemall I'm listening to what your problem is and I can't understand it and I'll bet it's hard to pronounce. 031009 ... nick Please understand that my problems aren't about you. You can't fix them. You can't make them go away. I don't want your solution. I don't want your words... for now. All I want from you is silence and maybe a show of sympathy... a hug or some food... dad, just hand me a beer and tell me to shut the hell up... mom ... well ditto, but remind me of your love because that helps more than anything else. I didn't drive all the way out here to complain, but it's lonely in my crowd, and I don't have anyone to tell this too in the city. Listen to me. I'm fighting for my life everyday, and I'm winning! Listen to me. My regrets are piling up like a stack of dead kittens, and if I don't get these out of here soon I'll just have to hold my breath all damn day. Listen to me. I destroyed every obstacle in my path this week. Remind me to revel in my successes. Listen to me. I don't just tell anyone about this. I trust you. I love you. I respect you. All I ever wanted was your approval. I'm ok... again :-) 031025 ... timestop she told me she'd say everything she felt. i told her i'd only listen to lies. 031110 ... shivers u want to listen, i just dont want to talk u always seem to know when i lie 031110 ... nonlucid and I'd like to tell you, I wish to tell you, dammit, I just got up the courage to tell you, and you're not answering. Not talking to me. I say I have words for you, TODAY I will tell you what I feel (and thereby destroy myself) I say Now and not later, I'm holding my breath, preparing to launch myself into this hell I've been through so many times before. And you say nothing. I ask if you have time to talk, time to ramble, time to meander around in circles of blather, you have better things to do. Dammit, you don't have to EVER talk to me again, just tonight, give me a minute or two, let me show you who I really am. Then hate me, despise me, shoot me, kill me, do what you please with my for-the-first-and-last-time honesty. Know my heart is yours to rend as you please. Just listen 040704 ... nighean_siofra listen to me please listen to me! hear what i say do you understand hello i'm still here you know i DO have things to say i hate it when you don't listen 040821 ... FloydianSlip He listens and he hears, but he can't see nor understand. Love is blind and he's stuck in a room with no lights. 040822 ... pete we lay on the dock, side by side, watching the stars, looking for shooting stars, talking, listening, becoming comfortable with eachother to the point that when we stood up we spent the next two hours either hand in hand, or leaning into eachother, holding on to the other for warmth and comfort 040823 ... somebody "Don't speak unless spoken to"- But who will listen if nobody talks? 041109 ... dawn Today I realized that I am meant to be a listener. Sometimes my life is a series of events unfolding in the form of stories I am told. Sometimes I hear delicious things unheard by anyone else but me. Somethings I hear things that I dont want to hear, but I always seem to listen anyways. I find that people seem to unfold things to me that they never knew about themselves otherwise. By listening, I can help people find themselves. Everything happens for a reason. When I am in tune with this gift I usually come to see a person fully and differently than most. Some little intricate detail becomes noticable, and more beautiful about that person. Sometimes I see a peoson for who they are and I dont like what I see. I always want to stop listening, but its hard. There is one person that I love more than anyone I have ever loved before. Sometimes, though rarely, I can hear him think- and even though this sounds crazy, I have found myself lying next to him in a deep sleep and in full conversation with him, then waking up slowly and coming out of that hazy early morning conteplation to realize that we were not just actually talking. I was lying down, hearing him talk to me and hearing myself respond. we are communicating without words. is this something that happens randomly, or can it be controlled and learned? the most beautiful things learned are unspoken and just known. its all about knowing how to listen 041215 ... orchid sometimes it's what between the words that you need to hear subtext speaks volumes 041216 ... dawn good call I like to listen to everything, not just words. its just what I was thinking about at the time 041216 ... phil you have no insight 041216 ... nighean_siofra listen, the world is falling dear freckled face see the sparkling shimmers? what a glimspe of sweet... can You open closed doors oh look, a new star! you know, dreams are coming paint them All yellow... say you heard me dimpled smile, always beckoning beckoning beckoning... 050501 ... z for some, the opposite of speaking is not listening, it's waiting. 050502 ... camille If we were supposed to talk more than we listen, we would have two mouths and one ear -Mark Twain 060129 ... jlymry327 listen to me. listen to me like you listen to your favorite song. listen to me like introspection. listen to what im saying. listen to what im about to say. why do i do this. why do i torture myself. why do i go back there everyday. why do i let myself go back there and hurt and feel pain and feel the butterflies. the nervousness. the nervouness. of butterflies. only bad. unexciting. the feeling that you know youre going to hurt soon. why do i do that to myself. do i like to hurt? do i like to hurt myself and think of things that hurt. i dont know. i only just ever hurt myself. again and again and again and some more. and then again. someday ill feel secure. thats the goal. to be ok. to not feel isolated and misunderstood. to not feel like the joke. the crazy. the psycho. the intense girl from the bar that makes people feel uncomfortable. to feel secure. thats the goal. i cant find that in a tattoo a piercing jeans shoes drugs alcohol. music. music makes me go there. makes me feel music and me. we go there. again and again and again. 060712 ... lilac_air just listen to my hert and kiss me and i will hear though your lips 070316 ... hsg loudly! 090922 ... Jurisprudence I know you heard me and thought about my words I know you weighed them, turned them inside and out I know you ran through scenarios enough to give you hope, and me But you didn't believe us 090923 ... z with your mouth closed 090924 ... . . 090925 ... Lemon_Soda I find that when people ask me to listen to them what they really mean is they want me to agree with them. 090925 what's it to you? who go blather from