Okay sorry I had to say something! Ellie you set my mind going again!
I know evidence on the BB may say otherwise but listening is something I have always been best at…. although I think this was because I was the middle child and wasnt very good at shouting up and making myself heard… so I stuck to just sitting back… listening and watching!
I have noticed in my short time around that many people are in fact very suspicious and in some cases afraid of listeners! Listeneres tend to be the quiet people that often slip through your memory or not… they may stick in your memory but they are the kind of person that seems to slip round your observation and people dont always notice them.
Listening and watching you see a lot and you tend to appreciate things, I know I often notice little things that many people dont. I was in London once a while ago now walking down a busy street, cars going past and the general noise and bustle and I noticed a tiny little purple flower growing in the cracks in the pavement. I was fascinated by it. I stoped and stood against a wall a bit of a way along the pavement and watched it.
People walked past and I was amazed that it wasnt being trampled, some people almost stepped on it but no one really noticed it, but there it was…. a small patch of bright purple in the jungle of grey. Sometimes a foot was push it over but it would stand up again. I really wish I had had a camera with me… it is an image that comes to my mind sometimes and just recently it has come to mind.
We may have GD, we may have TED but we are fortunate in many respects I guess… For the most part it may seem to us that our lives are like that cold city.. grey and lifeless despite all the activity… I know when I walk round London I would keep my head down and just go about my business.. try and avoid getting pushed around too much in the crowds…… but I am glad I noticed that little flower.
It occurs to me that in the cold grey city that may be our lives if we can look out for that little purple flower and when we see it.. stop and look at it for a little while!
I do not like citys but for the rest of the time I was there that day I carried the picture of the flower with me and it made me smile!
Smile inside today… find the little flower inside your life and watch it for a while!
Take care my friends
sorry if that didnt say much but I thought I would share my thoughts with you on that… thank you for reminding me Ellie!
Andy
