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What keeps you from being more curious about another person’s reality?
Austin replied 2 months ago 36 Members · 35 Replies
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To name a few, commitment to spending the time to journey down an unknown path, anxiety of not being able to say the right thing and how to continue the conversation properly. Bottom line is I am putting my own needs above loving and caring for others.
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I’m afraid too often I dont really want to know because I fear I wont know what to say. Sometimes I’m selfishly preoccupied with my own life and dont take the time to really ask questions and really listen. I might be too busy telling my own stories. And sometimes I might just think I’m too busy to take the time it would take to really get into something deeper with them.
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Opportunities and time and that’s my excuse. Opportunities that I do not seek; like sharing a cup of coffee with someone. Time restraints that are forced upon in given circumstances.
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Much of the time I am tired from my own struggles with my health. Other times I am tired of being curious because I was curious in my job as a therapist and I don’t have anything left in me. Yet, other times I simply just don’t want to know about another person for whatever reason.
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The belief that they do not want it, that I will not have the time to do soul care well, that they do not want to get to God’s love and goals (beyond fishing things – ie the growth that comes with trials, the angst they may take out on me in an abusive way or that the relationship will not be there in the long run, or that doing so will exceed my ability to relate deeply to just so many people, keeps me from being more curious about another’s reality.