On Listening - A Minor Treatise

[bettertolive]

Person 1: "I really like talking to [X]. It feels as though he is really listening to what I say instead of..."
Person 2: "... instead of waiting for his turn to speak."
(I forget the source for this, but I think I remember hearing some approximation of it once in a movie)

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." - Walden, Henry David

Comments

[bettertolive]

Wow. Not quite what I was expecting as far as comments go

[bettertolive]

"Also, this comment beautifully displays what I like about having you as a friend."

If you don't just mean that ironically, how so?

[bettertolive]

Uh... I knew that?

[bettertolive]

How does the comment do what you described?

[bettertolive]

Perceptive?

[bettertolive]

But I want to know more!