Quotation
Another thing ladies and gentlemen alike tend to do to prove how well they're listening is to interject "That happened to me too!" and then launch into a tale of our own experience. It took me over a decade to stop telling people, upon learning that they had lost a loved one, "Yeah, my mom died when I was twenty-six." We think we're building a bridge of sharing, but, most of the time, we're really putting up scaffolding over someone else's story and clambering all over it.