Spaces In-between: #65

"...and toward the end of his speech", she recalled, "he said, that there is a deep hunger in every human being, to be the object of attention to some degree or another. We all desire to be objects of someone's appreciation. All desire to feel special." She paused.

To be in the moment, to provide another their psychological air, is an incredible gesture. How this need is explored is through a simple act of listening and being transfixed on the other, not attached to any particular outcome, but simply attached to the moment for its own sake. Therefore value is appropriated through this simple absorption of another's energy.