{"id":6993,"date":"2026-09-30T14:09:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/?p=6993"},"modified":"2026-09-30T14:10:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T14:10:04","slug":"the-lost-art-of-listening-why-we-need-to-learn-to-truly-listen-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/the-lost-art-of-listening-why-we-need-to-learn-to-truly-listen-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Art of Listening: Why We Need to Learn to Truly Listen Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u2712\ufe0f :. Karamat Paul<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was a time when a convo meant sitting with someone, locking eyes and really listening. Today we can talk to hundreds of people without having a meaningful conversation with one of them. A message is marked \u2018seen\u2019, a call goes unanswered and a face-to-face conversation is often broken by a buzzing phone on the table. We have more ways to communicate than ever before, and yet we seem to be getting worse at talking to each other. Maybe it\u2019s not that we\u2019ve forgotten how to talk. Perhaps we have forgotten how to listen.
Consider the last time you had a conversation and didn\u2019t check your phone once. Just talking. Not replying to a notification, not scrolling through a reel, not thinking about who just messaged you. It might be harder to remember than we think. We\u2019ve begun to have shorter, more distracted conversations. We often listen to prepare our reply, instead of listening to understand. Sometimes when someone is telling us something important, our minds are elsewhere. We say we\u2019re listening but we\u2019re looking at a screen. And maybe that’s where we started to lose something simple: the ability to be truly present with another person.
Good conversation was never about the right words. They were about having a say. A friend would sit beside you after a long day and say very little, but somehow you would leave feeling lighter. These days, we look for the right emoji instead of the right words. We send a heart instead of \u201cAre you okay? We say, \u201cI\u2019m fine,\u201d because it feels like too much work to explain how we really feel. Patience is rare these days, somewhere between quick replies and endless notifications. We need to remember that people don\u2019t always need solutions. Sometimes all they need is someone to stay, and listen.
But listening isn\u2019t as easy as it seems. It requires patience, attention and sometimes a willingness to listen to something we may not agree with. We stop because we think we know what the other person is going to say. We give advice when someone wants a rant. We turn conversations into arguments because being right seems to matter more than understanding. But a real conversation is no competition. You don\u2019t have to win it. All you have to do is show up. Put the phone down, look at the person across from you and let them finish their sentence. That small thing can mean more than we realize.
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Perhaps the art of conversation is not lost after all. Maybe it\u2019s just waiting for us to slow down. We don\u2019t need elaborate solutions or costly technology to get it back. We need some patience, some curiosity, and the courage to say to someone, \u201cHow are you, really?\u201d A good conversation can change how we see a friend, a parent, a stranger, even ourselves. So next time someone starts talking, put your phone down and listen without feeling the need to jump in with a response. Sometimes the best thing we can give someone else is not advice, but our undivided attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u2712\ufe0f :. Karamat Paul There was a time when a convo meant sitting with someone, locking eyes and really listening. Today we can talk to hundreds of people without having a meaningful conversation with one of them. A message is marked \u2018seen\u2019, a call goes unanswered and a face-to-face conversation is often broken by a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6994,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6993\/revisions\/6994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noukeqalamnews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}