“Consider what story you want to tell.” Marie Brennan
Better To Question My nature is to question, to give an answer can, on the occasion of your being somewhat lost, be very helpful when I direct you to the very place you want to get to, but only geographically, no one really wants or even needs solutions to what they intuitively know they must experience along life's road, our story is simply that, our story, we cannot be anyone else's story. Copyright 2022 ©Paul Vincent Cannon All Rights Reserved ®
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As holocaust survivor and Nobel prize winner Elie Wiesel taught, there are no answers to life’s big questions, only responses.
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Yes indeed, and what a guy he was too.
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I know whereof you speak. I don’t feel comfortable giving people unsolicited life advice (or solicited life advice). I can just give the questions.
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Yes, I’m the same, besides, questions are far more helpful.
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I agree that questions are far more helpful.
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I take exception to this modern notion that a real friend only listens endlessly without ever offering suggestions ~ a real friend’s suggestions are as legitimate a life experience as any other, and often signal turnings in our paths much for the better and higher.
My impression of your own offerings in these situations (with which it is your profession to be constantly assailed, precisely for the excellent reason that folks know you’ve got something special to offer) is that most likely in many situations you have found the questioning mode to constitute the least offensive, most acceptable and, furthermore, most effective method of offering advice ~ thereby achieving a high affirmative synthesis of these two modes and their benefits to your conversational companions…?
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In many ways yes, but also i have learned that questions often get there faster, most times it is phrasing the suggestion as a question or a choice between to suggestions that really works for me. I still think there’s a place for offering outright suggestions, that’s true, but questions too 🙂
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Actually, this is exactly what I was trying to express ~ just didn’t do as good a job as you have! 👌
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Aha, I see, wonderful when we get clarified, it was late at night so I was a bit clouded, lol.
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Isn’t successful well meaning communication grand? Always gives me such a psychological shot in the arm (wait ~ do psyches have limbs? ~ actually, never mind) 🤣
Thank you for being my good partner and friend in working it out 🙏👌
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A shot in the avatar?? who knows, perhaps a poetic limb 🙂 Yes, agree very much, so good to work through. 🙂
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😊😅🤣👍
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❤️🙏
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… we cannot be anyone else’s story. Wise word. Thank you for sharig, Paul!
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Many thanks Amy
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Yes, no one needs solutions to what they intuitively know they must experience. Care is appreciated but they must stick to their track to know.
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Yes indeed
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🙂
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