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Selfish

I listen to podcasts quite often, I should actually do a whole blog post on my top 10 because I love them so thoroughly! Anyways I listen to podcasts quite often and I have recently been listening to a podcast called Mystery Show. I won't get into exactly what the show is except you should know by the name the narrator and producer solves mysteries. So she was trying to find a way to talk to Britney Spears so she purchases tickets from ticketmaster and when she calls ticketmaster to try and find out how the meet and greet with Britney will go she has a long conversation with the representative about life. He said something that struck a cord with me, in their random conversation (who knew you could have such a lovely conversation with a representative when you ask questions?) he says "If more people worried about other people and asked questions, there would be less time to be selfish and more time to talk to others and learn about other people, cause that's what life is about learning about other people". Woah. I have a very different perspective on "asking others questions and learning about other people". Although I will admit I am not your stereotypical gossip spreading woman, I do like to know about others but have always considered that to be nosey and it always make me feel like I was prying. But after the statement above I realize I am too focused on myself, I am constantly trying to fix myself, trying to better myself and my family. If I took a second to think about others and ask more questions I would be a lot better off. I need to not think of it as being nosey but as being interested in someone elses life and wellbeing. I have a friend who asks a lot of questions about me and my family and I have never really thought more about it but she is not being nosey but just interested in someone other than herself. So the next time someone seems nosey or you think they're trying to pry, maybe think about it in a different perspective, as if they're just trying to get to know you and get their mind off of themselves. My experiment starts today...Lots of questions and lots of nosey, whoops, interested questions. ;-)
-B

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