Listening and Hearing

As mentioned, both listening and hearing in general seems to be alike, but lexically, they are two different things. To compare, hearing often happens with college students when they are in dull lectures or when parents starts their endless nagging. Physically they are there, but mentally their minds are wandering to other stuffs.
Moving on, listening often takes place when a close friend is disclosing or sharing their emotional events or their personal experiences.
Well, those are just some relevant examples I come up with. Bringing human communication into the picture, I found out that they are so many more types of listening or hearing, it is really an eye opener. I believe that in order to maintain a good relationship as bf-gf or friends, one should at least have a basic degree of being able to listen to what the other party has to say. When this fails, it is more likely that the relationship is a tough one to maintain.
Communication is quite hard if you lose your hearing ability. In actual, your hearing ability, is one of the senses that you are unable to control. You cannot on or off it as you desire. Constantly, you are affected by what is happening around you because of your hearing abilities. Putting it in such a way, it simply means more or less, we are somehow affected mentally or psychologically, depending on one’s tolerance.
So, unavoidable, hearing and listening plays an important part in our daily communication. One should really take some time in self reflecting whether they are a decent listener, and if not should really consider means to try and improve it.

P/S : I consider myself as quite a good listener. Do feel free to come forth and lend my ears..haha….