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All real living is meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\nMartin Buber<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

When we meet another, we are presented with a choice of whether or not to risk ourselves. To take the time and risk of opening ourselves to another means being willing to lose a measure of control over our interaction and the direction it takes. To take this risk is to embrace living a richer life than we could possibly script ourselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, I had the opportunity to meet new people. This only happened because I intentionally opened myself up to meeting new people. While traveling to spend Thanksgiving with family, I struck up a conversation was started with someone else who was also waiting for the plane. The conversation was not long — maybe 15 minutes. But as I reflected on it during the flight, I realized that purely as a result of our time talking, I had learned from them. I saw some aspects of my life differently. And I came away accepting some new challenges for myself that will surely provide opportunities for growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I could not possibly have planned that meeting and sharing; I did not know this person and it was coincidence that we found ourselves seated near one another. But had I not responded to their conversational sally with an interested “Oh?”, my life would not be a good degree richer right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I took another lesson from that chance encounter because after I arrived at my destination and was together with people I have known my entire life (or their entire life, in the case of my younger siblings), I realized that although I knew them, they were still strangers in a way\u2026they had life experiences, ideas, traits, and so much more than I knew nothing about. I found myself responding again and again with an interested, “Oh?” and ‘meeting’ them again. It was amazing getting to know them better. I intentionally opened myself up to experiencing and appreciating them in a way I had never done before. And what I took from that time has made my life richer still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When we meet another, we are presented with a choice of whether or not to risk ourselves. To take the time and risk of opening ourselves to another means being willing to lose a measure of control over our interaction and the direction it takes. To take this risk is to embrace living a richer life than we could possibly script ourselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,26,16,18],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-self-growth-tips","tag-intentional","tag-meeting","tag-opportunity","tag-responding","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.pcrest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/120722a.jpg?fit=900%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}