Conversations

Have you ever found yourself in a conversation that's one sided, either you won't shut up or the other person won't?
Well what do you think, are you embarrassed or irritated?
Dumbstruck or challenged?
Really, why is it so hard for us to just listen?
We live in a society that teaches us to be dominant and strong , to do whatever we can to be the best and first....we fight amongst ourselves for it and build sports around it and we ever wage war because of it.
Ultimately we don't like to listen, because it's too nice.
Humans are naturally aggressive ...
it's true throughout history and in our current age of "enlightenment" you would think that we could find a way to communicate without having to take such drastic measures to accomplish our goals.
We don't listen because it would take too much time away from what we love...conflict.
Watch movies, television, even the news there's always conflict involved...physical, emotional, and mental conflicts are all around us. We thrive on them and can't wait to come in contact with another one.
It's in our very nature even though we don't want to admit it.
I'd like to sit in a room full of diverse men and women and have a conversation. I'd ask them the most profound questions I could think of and just listen and try to learn from them. Now I won't agree with them all, but do I have to.
Isn't a great conversation one that has a little bit of everything in it?
I wonder if I could sit people in a room and have that entire room LISTEN not just hear each other.
I wonder if that conversation could begin a little change in someone? Maybe even the world.