A Realization

The school year has just ended and my college career is about 50 percent done. I've learned life lessons outside of the classroom and learned lessons within them to carry with them.

A big lesson that I've learned and dealt with this past year is that in general we're all naturally self-centered people. Most of what we do is serve ourselves, if you really look at the motives behind much of what we do. When our friends say something great that happened to them recently, we try to top their story with one of our own to show . Or, when we fail to focus on our friends when we should. Often times, we don't give the people around us the attention that they deserve. It's difficult to put everything down when you have so much on the plate in front of you to look at the plate of someone else's. It's especially difficult for me, since when I become focused on something, it's very hard to pull me away from that.

I suppose part of this realization is me maturing and trying to understand others. I know that this is a life-long quest to truly be respectful of others by giving them the attention deserve, so why not start now and hopefully become real good when I'm at a ripe old age?

So I suppose I'll make my little how-to guide to follow:
1) Stop.
2) Listen.
3) Understand.
4) Speak.