Communication

 

We have different ways to communicate now days which can vary from texting, blogging, calling, actions etc. I personally hate the communication way of texting because I really think that we cannot express our full message. Texting in 2021 is a need and is super common that we could not leave without it, but honestly If I could stop texting and call instead or just see your friend in person, I would rather do that than texting. I honestly hate texting and I am not good at it, and is because I get bored of talking to the people and most of the people try to be “interested” by not answering back immediately. Social media also gives us another way of communicate with the world which would be through videos and posts. I have TikTok and I have a certain number of followers which is more than 200 thousand followers and I can see how I can communicate different things with my videos, and even each video can have different meaning for different people depending their beliefs, habits etc. Also, every post, story on Instagram will always communicate something to people either if its good or bad, and that is one of the reasons why we have to be super careful about what we post or share. Another way to communicate is body language and that is one of my favorite ways to communicate, because I consider myself to be more expressive with my body movements rather than my words. I am not really good at expressing myself with words, I am better expressing my feelings with hugs and others physical things. There is a really good example that I would like to share, I love to work out and usually when you workout you are listening to music on your headphones and when you are trying to use a different machine and there is somebody else using it, you usually just wave, point at the machine and they will move their head to let you know if they are using the machine or not, I think that is really funny because we have learned how to communicate in that way because of certain situations that we have been through.

I have an experience about how we communicate differently depending where you are from. I am from Mexico and we usually say hi by a hug and a kiss in the cheek and people in America usually don’t do that. So, I was getting to know this girl from Canada for a couple of weeks, but then we decided to stop talking and just being friends, and that’s what we became just friends. I saw this girl in school a couple of times and for me its normal to hug and give a kiss on the cheek to say hi, until a couple of days later she texted me saying: “ if we are going to be friends, can you please stop being flirty” and I was confused at the time she sent the message, but then I asked her why, and she said because I was giving her a hug and kiss on the cheek every time I saw her, and then I explained that is how we do it in my country when we are trying to be friendly and nice to people but that I wasn’t trying to be flirty to her at all. That experience reminded me of how we can get our expressions wrong if we don’t understand the why. I think that in order to have the best communication or connection with a person you need to be able to learn to communicate in all the different ways with them. Once we learned how to do that with a specific person you might be able to have a better relationship and with no misunderstandings.