The Challenge of Listening

My sister sent me an online game in a facebook timeline, she called it - 'Love your Spouse Challenge'. I need to post my photos together with my spouse for 7 days and tag another 2 people each day. The purpose? Hmm.. to keep the celebration of love and the promotion of traditional marriage, then I laugh suddenly. I didn't accept the challenge. The next day, the challenge was sent again by my Senior High School best friend.

In the same month, I saw another similar challenge. It's related to food, 'Love your Food Challenge', the rules was the same so did the purpose, to keep the celebration of love for the food. Food? Yes, food. And it's getting more seriously and personally when I saw another online game of my friend's FB timeline. A Bible Verse Challenge! Woow.. They said we need to continue the circle of spreading God's word, to get closer to Him at the same time to feel His love. Well, I doubt it. Of course it can't be as easier as that.

Until one day, I read an article that reminds me about my never ending home work, a listening behavior. It's not just to listen others but also to listen ourselves of who we really are, what we feel about and what we are afraid of. And it comes to my mind why people think they are need to have a challenge on how to love your spouse, your food or even your God? What they want to prove and why? This is the challenge! You need more than just a photo posting or bible verse status to make it happen. You need to listen, listen carefully. Okay, how often you did that? I mean without interfering, judging, influencing or persuading by your own thought.

This is Monday, when people get used to start everything. I challenge you but I won't tag you, just raise your heart, give a pause of your own ego. Try to listen others and yourselves to realize that our experiences are different and our heart to feel something are different. We are so much different one to another but you won't find it if you don't listen. 

Now, just listen for the next 7 days and you can add more and more and many more whenever it necessary.

Listening Monday, 8/8/16