Being a Leader is Different then Being a Listener

         Being a leader is different then being a listener. If I had to chose one, it would be being a listener but some of you already knew that because that is my mins personality. It is hard to change from a listener to a leader especially if you have been one your whole life but I am learning. I'm going to write about what I think a leader is and then what a listener is as well.
          A leader is a person who shows and tells people what to do. The person is in charge of everything and everyone. You have more on your shoulders then anyone else. You have to know how to talk and talk nicely at a fast and busy pace. You have to think on your feet and know what you are going to say right off the bat. Yet there are different kinds of leaders and I might be able to do some but not all. I would like to run my own business some day and be in charge of everything just because I know what I what and having something you made from the ground up is fun.
          Yet there are leaders under different companies that are hard because you have to work with other people and teach people to do things the way the company likes things done. Maybe this sounds a little jealous of me but it is something that I have always wanted. When you are working with different people whether age or culture, it can be truly hard in its own way. I'm not saying this to be mean but it is the truth. Everyone is different and has their own way of doing things that is just human nature, I understand that.
          No matter what job you have, you will always disagree with something someone does and we just have to look past that most of the time especially if you are a leader to them. The leader just has to be really strong in ideas and ways to get people to do things that they want them to do. They have to have that push til the end and I don't feel like I have it right now. I'm learning to have it but it is hard to get it especially if you went raised that way. I always thought that being a leader would be a neat job in a way but you do have more responsibility and it is harder. There is also a lot to learn.
          A listener is a person who listen to other people's problem. The person, depending on what they are listening to could only be one person. The person has time to think about what they are going to say in response. You can response in a nice timely manner or not at all. You can also take the time to write things out. You get to sit and just listen to the other person talk. You might have to give a few ideas and words back but not as much if you were a leader.
           I might be stepping on some toes if I say this but you have to agree with me. Leaders seems so serious all the time. They are so busy with other things that they don't have time to have fun or so it seems. I know leaders are needed and I respect every leader that I have known in my life because in their own way they have changed my life in some way plus I have a lot of leaders in my family. In a strange way, a lot of those leaders were and are the man in my family. They know how to take on the God given role very well. I also know God made the man to be the leader and the women to be the listener or nurturer in a marriage and I respect all of that.
          The reason I am writing this entry is to let people know what I really am and really like to be and always will be. Even though, I might be a leader at my job right now, I will always be a listener too because that is who God made me to be. I like sitting down for coffee or being outdoors and having long talks into the day or night. I could listen for hours about anything, whether life or how to do something like hunt and not say a word. I just love being with the people I love and know and are the most important in my life then to let a day slip by without knowing who they really are.
           That lesson and this entry has not came easy for me at all. As I look back on the loses I have had in my life, there are so many times that I look back and just think that I wish I would have just listen and not been so busy being a leader in life or getting to that point. I could have heard war stories, farm stories, about me being a baby and a little girl from another's perspective, stories about volunteering different places, and the list goes on but I just never took the time. Now that time is gone with those people but I still have people in my life the mean a lot to me and I can change on them.
           My challenge to whoever reads this entry is: Take the time to listen to the people closest to you because you never know when they will leave your life. Only God knows that. Take the chances you have when you have them because you never know when the next chance will come along or if it does.