chris. communication. understanding.
chris. communication. understanding. words cant express everything.
and the spoken word expresses so much more than the written word or
the signed word. communication is trying to get someone to a similar
understanding youre at. its like theres this idea in your head that is
sort of like a large cloud of fog. and maybe you can solidify part of
the cloud. make it into water. words. and then you can give these
words to someone else and they can try to recreate the cloud. but the
cloud is never the same. the molecules never settle into the exact
same position as your cloud. the definitions of the words they use may
be slightly different. or the method they use to reform the idea might
not be yours. they could have psychic walls that dont give the cloud
enough room to fully form. or maybe they have more space than you.
maybe the cloud mixes with other clouds they have and becomes
contaminated. no matter what. its never the same cloud. but sometimes
its close. sometimes the words were just right. they knew just how to
form the cloud. and to the naked eye theyre the same. this is true
understanding. and you know when you have that. you just know.
(occasionally though this is really hard because part of the cloud
can never be expressed as mere words. it just wont condense that way.
so you give the person everything you can and hope their knowledge and
experience will allow them to recreate the missing part).
growing up is merely a development of the methods of distillation and
recombination and a gathering of clouds. as we grow we learn new
methods of expression. a larger vocabulary. music. mathematical
symbols. whatever. and we learn new and better methods to understand
other peoples expression. and finally we build larger and larger rooms
with more and more clouds that interact more and more.
chris expresses that the part which cannot be put into words is
actually emotion. and it is this emotional part of idea which is
hardest to communicate.
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