Needing Attention

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Which virtue or vice is connected with ‘needing attention’?
 
Doesn’t it depend on the situation and person? Being needy is a problem…but so is ignoring someone that would be lifted up by just a few minutes of your time. Do you really think God wants us to ignore someone that is going through a hard time, to just say “pray about it” and move on without any words of encouragement, actions that would help that person through their time, actions that put that person’s problems ahead of yours for just a little while? Or, if you have a problem and refuse any comfort or help from friends—friends that maybe God sent to help—isn’t that pride as well?

Are we all thinking too much sometimes?
 
I’m having trouble understanding how to apply this advice. So let’s say that I am successful and reduce my amount of pride. I start off feeling that I really need people to listen to me talk about my day and my problems etc. Then, I go to prayer and ask God for the grace to reduce my pride, and I start to realize that I’m not really half as important as I thought I was. Now… does it follow that I will no longer have a need for people to hear about my day and listen to my problems? What is the mechanism there?
 
I think it is a balance. We all need one another, but the goal is to be “others minded” to be Jesus with skin on. Sometimes the other person needs you more…than you need to be heard. Sometimes, you need to be heard or to talk to someone.

I know I solve problems by talking them out. Our hearts should be for healing, and if we are purposed to only get our own needs met, then we don’t function as our part of the body, but if our needs don’t get met, then we don’t function as our part of the body.

I don’t think the answer is so simple.
 
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