I Hear You...

​Amongst many, many tributes to the late Bruce Forsyth, (and much as I enjoyed 'The Generation Game' and much as I love 'Strictly' I'm not sure I ever thought I'd be writing about him), one of the words which comes up most frequently is  'gentleman'. His friends, and all those who met him say that he was not just a great entertainer, but a really good man. One tweet in particular caught my imagination, tweeted by @joeonpiano, who tells in 140 characters, a whole story, about himself, about Bruce, and about something in all of us. His tweet reads:

'Playing piano on the floor of Harrods many years ago feeling totally ignored when a kind voice said "I'm listening". RIP Brucie. A real gent. '

One of Bruce Forsyth's  most significant qualities was they way he understood instinctively not what he wanted to say, but what he knew the people he was talking to wanted, even needed,  to hear. I think there's something in all of us which needs to hear those words 'I'm listening.'