I exist for 17 years in this moving world.
I learned to talk.
I learned to write.
I learned to read.
I learned to come up with my own ideas.
I learned to listen.
I learned to share.
I learned to express.
I learned to respond.
Things I do not always seem to value. They just mean so ordinary, a part of my daily routine. But when I enrolled in this course, pooooF, I STARTED GETTING INTERESTED TO THEM!
Learning communication is important. It makes us more aware of the happenings around and would help us understand better some of its basic concerns.
Having a pinch of idea about it, I concluded that what I was doing in my life (those written above) is in fact a part of communication.
Communication is a process.The usual walk at the covered pathwalk going to the Admin building may involve communication (situation given to us during the recent discussion). When we meet somebody, be it a a stranger or a friend, a brod/sis or our teacher, we usually say "hi, hello", tap each other's shoulders, do handshakes, or even raise eywbrows. These are few ways of communicating.
With these, I can say that communication is simply a vehicle of espressing/sharing our ideas, feelings, or thoughts to an individual/individuals capable of responding. There might be a lot of reasons whuy we communicate. Some would consider it as a requirement (cases like the handshakes of fraternities and sororities or the teacher-student relationship where students should greet teachers). Realizing the diverse cultures and traditions of the world, our group (recent groupings... by 3s) agreed that communication definitely varies from place to place. Japanese would not want look eye-to-eye when communicating, according to Prof. Saclot, cause this might mean intimacy. Whereas here in the Philippines, sincerity when talking means looking eye-to-eye. This differences could be one of the factors of misunderstanding in communication.
A lot of barriers in communication may occur along the way and one good example is the situation above.
The observations and analysis our group has collected were based partly on a scientific and partly on a humanistic way. Scientific because some observations were limited to our senses (basically what we see). Humanistic because some insights are really proven and were based on facts (like the japanese tradition).
This is my blog for now. this may sound so boring but hey, I love this and I am interested to learn more about communication.
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