attention

Your attention please.

We live in a social marketplace, where everyone begs to be noticed. I'm not sure if I'll ever understand it, but I know that I participate as a member of that place. Everyone wants to be congratulated, thanked, applauded, rewarded or remembered for something.

And it all makes pretty good sense; there's something very deep inside us that marks us as lovers of something. Lovers of people, lovers of money, whatever it be. All I know is that as children grow up, the boys who are affirmed by their fathers tend to be the ones that grow up to be dependably faithful men. The daughters with good fathers are the ones who usually find themselves well-affirmed and content with self appearance. But who am I?

I'm no expert: my overgeneralizations may be way off-key. But all in all, I would say that most everyone starves for someone's attention. At the end of the day, we each long to be noticed, admired, remembered, applauded.

So remember that. And give someone your listening ears today.