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Daily Question, September 15

How do I show others that I care?

  • Sondria Gregg

    I listen without judgement. Have dinners parties. I’m not much of a social person. I need to work of this.

  • Papilio

    Generally speaking by attentively listening to what they say with an open mind. I also send home-made cards or drop-off small pots of flowers to those who can’t communicate via the internet or whose declining abilities prevent them from communicating freely. Although it’s not easy nowadays under the pandemic, sometimes big hugs have more value than spoken words.

  • ABC

    Giving without attachment. It reminds me of this perfect quote from Hafiz,

    “Even After All this time
    The Sun never says to the Earth,
    “You owe me.”
    Look What happens With a love like that,
    It lights the whole sky.”

  • sunnypatti

    By letting them be who they are. By being compassionate and kind always. By being present with them and offering an ear or word of advice if they want me to. By being honest and forthright. By smiling at them. By hugging them – I can’t wait until I can hug more people!! I miss hugs, but am grateful for the few I can still share them with.

  • EJP

    With unconditional kindness and compassion always.

  • Trish

    When I give my time & attention to people it shows that I care. Life is filled with choices & there have been plenty of times when I was planning to engage in an activity & then BAM! life happened and someone needed me. It can be a tricky balance to shower our love on all our people & also take care of our needs. Continuing to find the balance is a lifelong project.

  • devy

    There are so many ways. Whatever one does to help, demonstrate love and kindness towards someone else demonstrates caring. Caring sometimes means doing something for a person over your own interests first. It reminds me of this quote.
    Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.

    Hung Tzu-Ch’Eng

  • Antoinette

    I show others I care in many different ways. I tell people I love and care about them and I try my best to show it by my actions as well. I volunteer and try to give back to society. I try and keep my mind and body healthy and make healthy ethical choices to help myself which I’m turn has a ripple effect on others. By taking care of my mind/body I’m able to maintain stability so I can be of greatest benefit.

  • Cathy

    Acknowledgment ?

  • Howie Geib
    First and foremost: Keeping my word. This is huge. Some people move through their day with total ignorance as to how their actions are not compatible with who they have told me they are. Breaking their word to themselves with a capriciousness that is head spinning. So I am left with a healthy suspicion that they really don’t care about their oaths and so likely will not follow through. Kids are especially keen on this. They can be brutal, sounding the alarm when I go way outside the lines I ha...

    First and foremost: Keeping my word. This is huge. Some people move through their day with total ignorance as to how their actions are not compatible with who they have told me they are. Breaking their word to themselves with a capriciousness that is head spinning. So I am left with a healthy suspicion that they really don’t care about their oaths and so likely will not follow through. Kids are especially keen on this. They can be brutal, sounding the alarm when I go way outside the lines I have set up. Recycling police and watching how I drive!

    Eye contact, especially while they are speaking. Opening and closing my time with them…initiating connection and closure. When possible (which is most of the time) taking actions that take into account their needs.

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    • Cathy

      “Opening and closing my time with them…initiating connection and closure.”
      I think I get this, Howie, but can you expound on it, please?

      • Howie Geib
        Sure Cathy! So in opening a conversation it is establishing contact…saying something as trivial as ‘How are you?’, or better something along the lines of ‘it’s good to see you!’…waiting for that to ‘land’…which means they somehow open a bit energetically, and listening, truly listening not just hearing, their reply…(you can test this with the front line workers in your life, your uber driver, the check out clerks at the grocery store, the homeless person with a cup on the s...

        Sure Cathy! So in opening a conversation it is establishing contact…saying something as trivial as ‘How are you?’, or better something along the lines of ‘it’s good to see you!’…waiting for that to ‘land’…which means they somehow open a bit energetically, and listening, truly listening not just hearing, their reply…(you can test this with the front line workers in your life, your uber driver, the check out clerks at the grocery store, the homeless person with a cup on the sidewalk)…

        Closure is saying something which acknowledges an end…”this has been great” or “ I’ve enjoyed hearing about (reference something you got from them in their sharing)…basically saying thanks. It is easier to show the opposite…stopping midstream to take a call on my mobile, immediately breaking eye contact and moving away…NOT closure. People act like they have given me permission to do this…but trust me…they don’t like it at all.

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        • Cathy

          Yes! This, exactly! This opening/closing time is something that has always nagged at me but I’ve never successfully framed it into a cohesive thought I could grab ahold of. Many thanks!

  • Kevin

    I demonstrate that I care about other people by being present to them, by listening to them and doing what I can to lighten their load in ways that are available to me.

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