The more you listen to other people's voice, the more you will understand their hearts.

Nowadays, there are so much noises we can heard from everywhere. The noises we wish to disappear. It perhaps come from the social media platform, from your family, from your friends and even from yourself. It is hard to understand each other when both of you are talking at the same time.

I know some of you are experiencing this kind of event in your life. There are times when you are so nervous or afraid of something, there will be voices inside of you. This voices are actually made from your past experiences which causes you stress, anxiety, extreme trauma or unwanted event. Based on my research, the voices you heard inside of you is called 'auditory hallucination'. This means what you heard only happens within your heard.

But I will not focus on the voices inside, rather I will focus on the voices outside. This is very personal article for me because definitely I will share some of my past experiences to make as an example. Well, I hope you read it without skipping.

How much can you listen?

This is a question I want to ask to everybdoy. How much can you listen to people's story and opinions? Maybe some of you didn't bother to listen to them because you are not interested. Maybe some of you will act like you listen but not actually. You know what just by listening to people, you can help them ease what they are feeling inside.

Let me share a story of my friend and I when we are in senior high school. This story is about the extreme dark experiences we experience so far. One afternoon, I went to school early because I just want to enjoy the long ride from our home to school. I would say our school its around 20km away from our house.

My friend hannie went to school early as I am. We're bestfriends. It's unusual for her to come to school early because she's type of student who wants to be kind of a bit late. I asked her why she came early.

Han:I had problems at home, Denn. Can we talk about this. I trust you, and we knew each other for so long.

Me: Oh yeah, sure. What is it?

Han: Denn my stepfather harassed me last night. *start crying*

Me: W-what? What kind of harassment he did to you? Are you ok?

Han: He touched my leg in the middle of the night. I awoke suddenly because I felt something moving in my legs. It's quite cold. Then when I opened my eyes, I saw my stepfather in front of me. Then he rushed to go back to their room.

Me: This is absurd! Such bastard! Did you tell it to auntie? What did she say?

Han: She didn't believe me. Instead she slapped me. It was my first time mama got her hand on me like that.

That day, we talked so long like about an hour. She just cried and cried while telling me how she felt and experience. I remember that my handkerchief was so we because of her tears. That's okay! I felt so angry to his stepfather and disappointed to auntie due to her actions.

After class, it's my time to share why I went early to school early too. I don't expect that she will asked me, but I-uh tell my story too.

Han: Denn why are you early btw? You are much earlier than usual.

Me: I-uh, we have family problem as well.

Han: What is it? You did shared one before, I think last week. So what is now?

Without further ado. I immediately told her the story because its very heavy in my heart.

Me: My father was arrested this morning. As you know, he got to an accident last two weeks ago. The police told us that he wasn't attending to court trial. But the subpoena wasn't delivered to us too.

Han: Huh? *shocked* how is that possible? How's your father now?

Me: He was detained in (cannot say the place). He was there and we don't know how long he will stay there. I don't know what to do now.

Han: Denn I'm sorry for that. I wish I can help you, but I cannot now.

Me: No, it's okay. We're experiencing our downfalls today at the same time. What a coincidence. We are really best friends.

Listening to others do not cost you a single penny. Yes, it costs time, but it's worth it because you saved life.

Question: What's the most memorable story you heard of?

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Blog #9
2/4/22