Put Your Listening Ears On

Do you listen

My husband Gary says I never listen. I don’t think this is necessarily true. I listen sometimes. Being a Taurus I am very stubborn. Once my mind is made up it rarely changes. Is this a bad trait? At times, I suppose it can be. Later, after the fact I can always say I should have listened to you. This has happened before. We had a dog who didn’t want to be at our place because it wasn’t his home. He loved his home. Two people brought him over dropped him off and left him with us. To say he was devastated is an understatement in the ninth degree. He would not leave his kennel because the kennel came from his former home. He had these big eyes and would just stare at Gary and me. We had to pull him out of his kennel (gently) with a leash to get him to go outside to go to the bathroom. He would only come out for two things. Eating and the bathroom. Otherwise, he lived in that kennel. I remember feeling so bad for him. My husband and I both felt bad. He did not want to be with us, he wanted to go home and could not figure out why he was in our home. Because the people who had you didn’t want you. It’s such a sad fact, but true. For a week we struggled with this.

Don't Let Him Go

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He got out because I just let him out in the yard with me. Without a leash. He jumped the fence and ran. I’ve never seen a dog run so fast. The previous owners told us, oh he’ll be back. No, he won’t. He didn’t want to be here in the first place. Why in God's name would he come back. He was found and picked up by the previous owners who promptly brought him back over here and dropped him off. I will never forget the look on his face when he watched them drive off without him. So, he spent another week in his kennel. I tried sleeping by him on the floor near his kennel. He wouldn’t budge. Finally, after the second week I convinced the owners, he wasn’t happy here and just wanted to be home. They came to get him and then sent a video of him following behind a lawn mower, happy as can be. People who drop off their dogs don't realize the heartbreak of the dog they leave behind. Their hearts are broken. The moral of this story is if I would have listened to my husband the dog never would have gotten out. He told me to take him out on a leash. Always. I thought he should be happy with us and want to be here. But that wasn’t the case. Lesson learned.

I'm Busy

I’m a busy person so I don’t always have time to listen. I run here, I run there, I run everywhere. I’m either at work, or ballgames, one or the other. It is our life. We love it. Listening is also a polite thing to do. When someone is speaking to be on your phone or chatting is rude and disrespectful. Listen with both ears open. It's the least you can do. 

I guess I’ll try. Try to be more patient, try to be more understanding. That’s all we can do right. Try. If you don’t listen, you may miss something of utter importance. Although at times when others are talking about you, I think it is a good thing (sometimes) you do not hear. So, it can go both ways. What, people aren't nice all the time? No, they are not. It's people.

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Get the wax out of your ears. What do you hear?

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