Are You Listening?

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Everyday, new things are discovered and improved upon. This can hinder one's ability when it comes to communication as we are so ingrained in our technology and dislike to miss out on things that we ignore and take advantage of the things and people we see in our everyday life. This occurs because while we value them, we believe them to be just that, always there in our life and this combines with our need to just have to know what is going on at this moment!

While the title and beginning of the story call out like a shout to us (seemingly like an intervention of sorts), it is the words that whisper things one has probably thought to themselves. Everyone has been lonely and ignored. The pages of pages of how even celebrities of our time can feel 'normal' as they experience their words falling on deaf ears. It is easy to pretend to pay attention, but nodding one's head is not as showing as adding to the conversation.

Perhaps future chapters will discuss not only better ways to keep others, even close friends and family, from feeling isolated, but discuss that sometimes loneliness is chosen, like where one puts themselves environmentally, in the park surrounded by others, friends or strangers, or in their rooms, alone.