I’M OBSERVING AND HAVE BEEN OBSERVING

Sir,

Hlubi wakitsi, Langeni, Gwalagwala, this is in response to your articles.

Thank you for your contribution in our Sunday newspaper. You are a very analytical writer who touches the very core of our existence.
I would personally advise you to write a book because your articles are very inspirational. 

That said, I’m observing and have been observing.
They say the older you grow, the wiser you become and upon becoming wise you learn to talk less, listen more and observe before making assumptions.
 There’s a story I once read on the internet about Albert the owl. Albert was advanced in years; you can call him a senior citizen if you want.
Albert would always sit on a tree during rush hours and OBSERVE as people went about their day to day business.

He would quietly sit on the tree and watch. Each time he watched, he was learning something about life. As he watched, he was learning a skill. Do you know what that skill was? He was learning to listen. 
On other days he would see kindergarteners clinging comfortably in the hands of their mothers, who were taking them to school.

Among those children, there were those who would wail, throw tantrums in a bid to get away from the grasp of their loving parents.
Sometimes he would watch loving couples cuddling and giggling all the way to their different destinations.

On other days he would spot a homeless man scavenging in a nearby dustbin.
In all his observations, he was learning to talk less and listen more.
It takes wisdom to be a good listener. Psychologists have observed through experiments that it is one thing to hear and it’s yet another to listen.
Many people hear but do not listen.

For example, if you hear people talking about someone; saying a lot of unfounded allegations and accusations; as a senior citizen you would call those allegations rumours or hearsay. 
That is called hearing and I call those allegations unfounded because there is no proof of their existence.
You have heard people talking and you were not wise enough to listen.

You heard and jumped to conclusions. After jumping to conclusions, one would puff like an excited chiwawa thinking they know someone yet they don’t.
Some would even go to the extent of publishing such foolish allegations in the media.
What I’ve learnt from Albert is that he observed and kept quiet.

My implication here is No sound person can observe and talk at the same time. It is impossible to draw out a sound conclusion from that. An observer always shuts all the noise from his exterior and then concludes. 
As I said I don’t like hearsays and I don’t like people who publish hearsays (imvabetsi). It does not show maturity to draw conclusions based on something you are not sure of. That is why we have courts (law enforcers).
That’s where we take people who have not developed their listening skills, who only hear and draw an unsound conclusion in the process making dirty someone else’s image – defamation of character. 
In response to my wisdom above, please send to the above address so we can talk like matured adults.

From Senior Citizen
 (The Observer)

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