listening

In the Era of Christ's lifetime there were quite a few luminaries, none quite so brilliant perhaps, but still deeply profound and well worth learning from. One such is the slave-philosopher Epictetus. Like Jesus, he did not write his own wisdom but it was recorded by those around him.I highly recommend you take the time to look up "The Golden Sayings of Epictetus" one of them is as follows: "God gave you two ears and one mouth, so that you might listen more than you speak."
In Luke 6:31, and several other places in the Gospels, Jesus is found extolling a simple principle. "Do for others as you would like them to do for you." Currently, in the social media society, we find that we have a countless number of prompts to share our opinions. So much so that it's quite possible that a lot of people are mindlessly making noise. Obviously, even if we don't know what we are trying to say, we want to be heard.
I've come to the opinion over the years that one of the very few things we can do to help and heal the many groups of displaced and disenfranchised people in the world is to give them a voice. Not necessarily to fix their problems for them, but to let them know that they are esteemed, their story is worth hearing, and someone wants to understand and empathize.
We're all making a lot of noise, and we make more and more because no one is listening. If we break the cycle and listen, then we will truly be doing for others as we want done for us.