Week 9

Hello to all!! Time to get back at it this week now that spring break is over. We focused on the area of communication last class period. It is a part of our lives that is constant but thought about rarely. The activity we did was a good representation of how communication can be interpreted in numerous ways and understood on different levels. I had mentioned in my answer to the question of the day that my most ineffective time of communication rests within my daily tasks and interactions. I tend to think everyone automatically knows what is going on in my head and can always interpret my thoughts. Therefore I often times get upset when people can’t read me the way I think they should.

One of the main problems that lead to divorce in today’s society, which has over a 50 percent divorce rate, rests within communication between the couples. Both men and women communicate differently. Women tend to enjoy playing guessing games with their feelings. Females never act as though they want people to know what they are thinking or feeling even though they hope people will figure it out for themselves. Men are more direct, they will either tell you how they feel when it is important, or they will just let it brush off their shoulder. I know I am not a male and cannot verify this is the way males communicate. I just know what I see through observation and what I have learned in classes involving male and female communication.

I truly believe communication is the most simple alteration that can be made in a lot of people’s lives to fix much bigger problems. If everyone changed the way they communicated so they became more effective, more major problems could be identified and fixed. Not only problems within relationships but problems globally among different countries.

The same principle that shows communication as a consistent part throughout our daily lives also needs to apply to the thought about daily communication where we should constantly think about the way we communicate more while we are communicating. It is something I plan to work on in my daily activities and interactions.