Wednesday, February 07, 2007
Other People's Ideas; Darren's Response
Dear mom,
You don’t love me today. At the end of every letter, you always say “love, mom,” but this time you just wrote your name. This gave me the impression that you don’t care enough to write love at the end, though it’s probably just that you’re busy and it slipped your mind.
Anyways, about what you said, that sounds like a good idea. You’re right, often we’re so wrapped up in what we want that we don’t think about what’s good with other people’s ideas and what’s wrong with ours. We like to just focus on the positive of our ideas and the negatives of others, so we really need to try to take a step back and look at all ideas equally, and then decide if maybe the other person’s idea is good as well, or even better.
Darren
You don’t love me today. At the end of every letter, you always say “love, mom,” but this time you just wrote your name. This gave me the impression that you don’t care enough to write love at the end, though it’s probably just that you’re busy and it slipped your mind.
Anyways, about what you said, that sounds like a good idea. You’re right, often we’re so wrapped up in what we want that we don’t think about what’s good with other people’s ideas and what’s wrong with ours. We like to just focus on the positive of our ideas and the negatives of others, so we really need to try to take a step back and look at all ideas equally, and then decide if maybe the other person’s idea is good as well, or even better.
Darren
