Saturday, March 21, 2009

The best thing

In my opinion, the best thing to have in life is an open mind. Having new perspectives is refreshing, being stubborn is boring. Stubborn-ness is rude. Everyone likes someone who can listen. I like to listen. I like to vent. I like people who listen to me vent. Do we see a cycle here? A pattern? Anything? 

Being on both sides of the stubborn-ness (I made up this word) spectrum, letting my guard down and listening, seeing another person's view is relaxing. Being stubborn, it's frustrating. Because you're like "I want to get my point across, but no matter what this other person says, I'm not going to back down". When the hell has that ever worked? Throwing temper tantrums is childish, but listening, being open is attractive. It's mature. It's... everything.

Phew.

1 comment:

Kelly said...

:) I love you. and I like this post.

OF COURSE I would visit you at starbucks. and if you don't wind up working there, we can still go and have coffee there :)

I will come to manhattan soon! I'm thinkng maybe the 3rd weekend in April. We'll see how it goes.