If you listen through the screen of your desires, then you obviously listen to your own voice; you are listening to your own desires.
Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one's own desires through which one listens.
I had phases of listening to rap and trap, and then I had phases where I'd listen to post hardcore, rap, grunge, metal... all that. I had different time periods of listening to different music. And now it all clashes together.
I grew up listening to a lot of emo music, a lot of rock music, a lot of rap music, a lot of trap music, funk, everything.
I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
Anyone who has ever spent time listening to a legislature knows the astonishing speed at which all presiding officers and reading clerks can spit out the formulaic incantations of parliamentary procedure.
No, it's not a very good story its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.