Meanings of a conversation!

I have a habit of recalling the way a conversation took place in a group setting. Let me share done experience.

This group of students were strategising before a badminton match. Each one had an opinion and was well stated. The player paid attention to each of these ideas and said that he too had similar ideas. He thanked them profusely for their thoughts and for their presence to watch him play!There was hardly any argument about the feasibility or the effect of any of the strategies. Instead there was appreciation for every thought and a gratefulness  for their  presence!

We are sometimes driven by the desire to analyse an opinion rather than stay with the opinion! It is by mulling over or pondering over, we get the full extent of the relevance of the opinion! An opinion can appear to be affirmative, critical or disturbing.  We can interpret it in any way!

A friend who visited us mentioned to us that the cottage we live is in  a scenic spot and can offer an ideal setting for rest and reflection! That opinion after three months of our stay here sounded unreal to us then. However almost everyone who visited us in the last eighteen months mentioned the same.

Over a period of time, what sounded as unreal evolved to be more real over a period of time! 

We can receive an opinion however divergent it may be from our opinion. In receiving it, we are opening the door of possibilities. Every opinion has a gestational period before it can strike us to be significant.

Every person in sharing an opinion with us is sharing a perception, based on his or her insights and information! Every person needs to be valued. 

This would avoid unnecessary arguments, confrontations and clashes! Every conversation is of value. It is for us to make it to be so!

M.C.Mathew(text and photo)