Wanting to be

Heard

There's so many ways to feel heard. A person simply putting their phone down. Giving you their attention in general. Even for a short little bit. Just long enough to feel like you're being heard. Music, for example...! How many artists have put music out there expressing how their feeling in the moment? And yet, you feel the same way... somehow. You might be reading this, or maybe a book, or writing down your own little piece of heart. Wanting so badly to be heard. It's not a bad thing! By any means! I hear you! Take Beethoven...! He was a pianist. And wrote music down and played it for people to hear. To listen to and feel something. It works! For those who listen. Moonlight Sonata. Give it a listen. It could tell you a story without even realizing it... and make you feel the type of way he wanted you to feel. That's because he wanted you to listen; because he wanted to be heard. Because maybe he, too, had felt alone. Or sad. He might've felt better playing the piano than speaking how he felt. Or maybe take Shakespeare! He was a poet, among other things, and he wanted to be heard with his words and have people feel the way he had felt. He's most famous for Romeo and Juliet. But there's Hamlet and Macbeth. Things in those writings that he had placed in there... settings, places, feelings... maybe he had felt a certain way at the time. And had no way of getting it out. But making up a story, and making a character be himself. Giving the character some sort of despair, sadness, anger... because he had felt it. Giving the people a chance to hear what he thought, felt, or seen. Maybe I'm wrong...! There's nothing I wouldn't do to feel a little bit like I'm being heard. To have someone I know would one hundred percent, without a doubt, be there and listened whole-heartedly to make me feel heard.