In daily conversations, there are always people whom have shorter listening span than others. It gets annoying when one has to keep repeating the same sentence over and over again to the person one is talking to. To give an example of that, I will be using a scenario between two people named them Charles (age 30) and Alphonse (age 20).

The scenario involves the two friends, Alphonse complaining to his oversea friend Charles about his tight time schedule for the new semester. One day, Alphonse comes home after learning of his new schedule for the new semester and called Charles in hope Charles will comfort Alphonse. Alphonse started complaining by first stating that his local friends from other campus are having a lighter schedule as compared to him. Charles replied that it is normal for the schedules to differ from one campus to another. However, Alphonse replied that his schedules should not have differed that much as they are still locally located. Charles said that it might not always hold true as different campus may thrive for different schedules so as to push their students to a higher height. Alphonse felt irritated at this instance and began having a bias mind set which led to an argument.

The above example shows that the difference in culture will lead to the lack of understanding between both parties. Charles understands where Alphonse is coming from however; he did not attempt to give words of encouragement, like stating that the tight schedule was so that the students could be pushed to higher heights and Alphonse should be rather glad about it. Instead, Charles wanted to brush the topic off by stating that different campus has different schedules.

The lesson we can learn from this would be to listen to the other party and to try to understand where they are coming from. The listener should try to understand why the speaker has spoken in the way the speaker did and ask questions if there are any doubts.