Friday, June 24, 2011

Week 1 Communication: Anywhere Anytime and You Can't Get Rid of It

                Imagine a tool that is used by all without any restrictions, a tool that can manifest in any form possible whether tangible or intangible, a tool that is used at all times at day or even at night. This tool is one of the most powerful tools of all and it used to build whole nations, factions, basically anything and everything. This tool is called communication. Communication is vast and is available to anyone or anything. I was recently challenged to think of a situation in which there was no communication. I pondered for a while together with my fellow classmates and ultimately failed to think of a thought. A thought in which if there was or is ever a circumstance when communication will be absent. And then this gave us a thought: communication IS everywhere and it will never be absent.

                Imagine if there was no communication aaaand I bet you can’t. HAHA! I already said that communication is ALWAYS present. I think that the only time there ever will be no communication is when somehow the whole universe broke down and nothing survives in the destruction. Communication will only be absent by that time because nothing can transmit messages and nothing can receive the messages.

                It is completely natural for everything and everybody to communicate with each other. Even subconsciously we communicate with each other. There are even times that one will talk to one’s self. It might sound weird to talk to yourself, but everybody does it sometime to think about stuff they do not want to involve others in. See? Communication comes so naturally that people talk to themselves’ from time to time. For the more eccentric some even talk to their things as if those things can talk back at them.

                Communication is also without restrictions. People use it anywhere for everything and they choose whether to use this responsibly or not. Others like their profane language and their mouths spew profanity like a volcano erupting and spilling lava all over the place. Others use communication responsibly and make friends not enemies, peace not war, and much more responsible things and activities.

               The basic idea is communication is important, but unlike other important things communication can never be rid off. Air is important but one can just hold his/her breathe and suffocate, food is important but one can starve one’s self to death, water likewise is important and one can also choose to thirst to death. One thing they have all in common, besides killing yourself, is that those actions still communicate to others and to the self.

                You can’t get rid of it, you can’t run away from it. What is it? It’s COMMUNICATION and it’s coming to get you!!