Vicissitudes and Victories

Interpersonal Communication

The ability to communicate separates humanity from nature. I, for one, thrive on interpersonal communication. Not the generic, artificial kind that we put forth when we're too busy or too apathetic to really reach to someone else, but true communication where one person conveys to another their most intimate sense of existence. In truly trying to know someone, we not only communicate mind to mind and face to face, but one soul touches another. True communication leaves no question of motive or sincerity; it pushes through doubts and fears. In short, when we truly know one another and communicate one with another all parties are better for the experience. They are buoyed up in knowing that even if all the rest of the world fails, there is someone whom they know and who knows them, and that can make all the difference.

posted by Joel @ 10:31 PM