This weekend Carolyn and I are off to St. Augustine, FL to celebrate our anniversary of 26 years. It has only been lately that I have given much thought to it, and I mean it when I say I hope she does not give much thought to it. In spite of the fact that I am one of the greatest guys I know, a brilliant man indeed, I have at least one flaw. I know, I know, you are shocked, but it is true. If I step outside myself and look at me and my interactions with others I see that I am not the easiest person to live with. For one thing, my OCD. For the uneducated among you, that is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. My wife insists everyone has the same tendencies and that I make too much of it, but when you are overtaken with irritation when your computer monitor is out of being straight by an eighth of an inch and you cannot concentrate on any task until you fix it, you really do feel that something is amiss. I would like to think that I am a very easy going sort, but evidence is lacking for it. It is pretty universal, I guess, we all like to think we are liked, or at least, likable. Can we improve? I don’t know, I’d like to think we can. Here are some starting points. Listen more, talk less. Look at people, feel what they are saying. I once heard that an acquaintance was telling everyone who would listen about my uncanny skill in helping with his problem. What did you do you ask? The day he was speaking of…I listened to him for 30 minutes without saying a word. All the help he was praising …. came from within himself.
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