Forbidden talk
We come across many people in this life, including relatives, acquaintances or colleagues, who possess a trait I myself consider so bad. Unfortunately, very few people share this opinion with me. This trait has never caught their attention and it has never been rejected or criticized.
That horrible trait is sudden interruption of an interlocutor, stopping his or her words before they could even complete the sentence they were about to say. It is a habit that is so hateful and has so many negative indications.
On the one hand, it indicates lack of respect to the person we interrupt because someone’s talk is part of their personality. When we insult someone’s words, it is just as if we are insulting them in person.
On the other hand, such interruption indicates lack of understanding of what is being said. It indicates that such a person had not been listening in the first place, and that is why the interruption is so sudden and out of context. This means that the people who make the interruption either did not understand or did not even bother to listen to what was being said. In addition, those who interrupt others are incapable of listening and comprehending what they listen to. They usually get detached during the conversation and move their eyes around the place to avoid looking the speaker in the eye. I am not claiming that this is a curable disease, but it is rather a detested habit that is practiced by some people with very limited comprehension abilities.
Among the negative impacts that interruption leave is that it causes the speaker to lose focus of facts and ideas that they never get the chance to eventually complete or explain. But despite that, this ‘plague’ has unfortunately hit so many radio and TV channels that had been recently invaded by endless numbers of irresponsible and underage people who lack the blessing of knowledge, science and perception. They would suddenly and rudely interrupt in a way that indicates they had not been listening and are incapable of perceiving what is being said, at the very same time when viewers or listeners are carefully listening. Listening is a skill only mastered by those with wise and highly educated minds.