Kaitlyn Gregory
Journal #4
Question 1
Hearing and mindless listening, compared to listening and mindful listening are two
completely different topics. I believe that if you hear something that somebody says, and it
goes in one ear and out the other, you genuinely don’t care about what they’re saying to you.
The same goes with mindless listening, if you were just reacting in a routine way it will be
noticeable to the person that’s trying to talk to you, and they will feel as if you don’t care about
what they’re saying. I think that listening and mindful listening are very important nowadays
especially in a college setting for many reasons.
I think that people tell their friends things expecting them to listen, but they’re only
hearing what they’re saying. I can relate to this topic, because I communicated to a friend that I
was upset, and I don’t believe that she was actually listening to why, she was just hearing it and
responding routinely. It was very noticeable that she was responding routinely because she was
responding really fast, and I could tell that she wasn’t thinking about or processing what I was
saying and trying to help me. She was just responding so it seemed like she was listening when
she was not. This affected me because I thought that she did not care. This resulted in me being
more upset and having another reason to be upset.
This can also be more intense to other people. For example, if a person is suicidal, and
they are telling their friend about something that is upsetting them, and their friend is only
hearing what they’re saying and responding in a way that everyone responds, it can make the
depression worse. It can make it worse because the other person feels as if they have nobody
Journal #4
Question 1
Hearing and mindless listening, compared to listening and mindful listening are two
completely different topics. I believe that if you hear something that somebody says, and it
goes in one ear and out the other, you genuinely don’t care about what they’re saying to you.
The same goes with mindless listening, if you were just reacting in a routine way it will be
noticeable to the person that’s trying to talk to you, and they will feel as if you don’t care about
what they’re saying. I think that listening and mindful listening are very important nowadays
especially in a college setting for many reasons.
I think that people tell their friends things expecting them to listen, but they’re only
hearing what they’re saying. I can relate to this topic, because I communicated to a friend that I
was upset, and I don’t believe that she was actually listening to why, she was just hearing it and
responding routinely. It was very noticeable that she was responding routinely because she was
responding really fast, and I could tell that she wasn’t thinking about or processing what I was
saying and trying to help me. She was just responding so it seemed like she was listening when
she was not. This affected me because I thought that she did not care. This resulted in me being
more upset and having another reason to be upset.
This can also be more intense to other people. For example, if a person is suicidal, and
they are telling their friend about something that is upsetting them, and their friend is only
hearing what they’re saying and responding in a way that everyone responds, it can make the
depression worse. It can make it worse because the other person feels as if they have nobody
