we want to be experienced!!!!!

I have been thinking about this post a lot. Have you ever been there? You want to write about this...then about that...then about another topic ...all seems so inviting to wrap my mind around and be creative about. I do not like this new post setting; it makes it hard to be creative, no colors no more :( Yesterday while I was waiting for my doctor’s appointment to get my shots for South Africa, I started to read a magazine (I totally forgot the name of it....). There was one article about our SOCIAL QUOTIENT instead of Intelligence Quotient (I.Q.). This article talked about the author of the E.Q.: Emotional Quotient. His newest book is on the Social Quotient. We are all social beings, wired for fellowship, wired for being with one another. One phrase really caught my attention: We all long to be experienced by another person, by our friends etc. That is so true and I love the wording: I want to be experienced; I want a person to have interest in me, in my personality. I want to be experienced. So often, as we focus on ourselves, ...wait I should stay in the I-message here, : so often as I focus on myself, I loose sight of wanting to experience my friends, to experience this other person in front of me. Then I think I already know that person, and then I assume and project my thoughts wishes and feelings onto that person INSTEAD OF EXPERIENCING THAT PERSON and INSTEAD OF LETTING THAT PERSON DEFINE HIM OR HERSELF! Help me dear God, not to be so self-focused, and be more motivated in get to know the person that is right in front of me. Let me experience them!