Thursday, May 08, 2003

(seen here)

Listening to another person speak can be very difficult. And going to the trouble of wondering what it might be like to be this certain someone, particularly when you don't want to, is something that doesn't exactly come naturally. Thinking twice or looking back--looking again--or being generous in your consideration of another is what is meant by the word respect. And there is nothing quite so blessed as being the recipient of such kindness. It might be the most wonderful thing (specifically in the beginning stages of an acquaintance) that one human being can offer another.It is to be a bearer of good news. The merest whiff of the stuff is enough to make most anyone swoon or tear up over the memory of when it last happened to them or the fear that it might never happen again. It can make of the world --for the practitioner AND the beneficiary--an entirely different place.

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