Thursday, January 08, 2009
Why?
Why are people afriad to talk to each other anymore? Let me explain. You're reading a blog! Why is it that when you want to know about someone (me or anyone else for that matter) you go to their blog? Why not pick up the phone or even write a letter (note: write, not type). I know of several couples who would rather go to an expensive night at the movies then stay at home and watch a movie that they can pause and stop to talk to each other. Why do so many people text when in the time it would take to write and send the text you could have called and had a conversation with the person in the first place? People leave messages for people on machines and when they never get an answer from that person, respond with: but I left you a message. Why not call back and try talking to the person? I see peopel every day who are eseentially losing the skill of communication. When I applied to college (back when dirt was being formed) you had to be able to effectively communicate (I had both an oral interview as well as essay style questions) for the purpose of admission and most scholarships. Can people do that these days? How many conversations are filled with verbal fillers such as "like", "um" and one my personal pet peeves "you know what I am talking about" (sorry Dad). After all, if I knew what you were talking about, wouldn't I be asking you. I say all of this because, I am grateful for a wife who supports and encourages our time together with each other engaged in activities that allow us to talk and communicate with each other. Whether it is playing cards (except with Bryce who stackes the Skip-Bo deck) or running errands together - the point is we're together and most of the time talking with each other. This usually prevents us from having problems that arise from not speaking to each other. This allows us to know what the other is thinking and feeling. We have come to discover each others passions, fears, joys, etc. because we talk to each other and don't keep it bottled up or hidden on a blog where the other one never looks. These are also things that our friends and family have come to (or are coming to) know about us, beacsue of face-to-face communication. Speech is an amazing gift (even ASL speech). Use it.
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I will now respond to you via the blog because I'm an impersonal person who prefers the security blanket of digital communication instead of person to person communication. :-p Anyway, I know exactly what you mean even though I am guilty of it on occasion. I usually made it a point not to text people, one because it costs money and two, because it is just easier to actually talk to the person. One of the girls who I will not name, spent almost the entire time aside from inside the actual temple, texting. It was a little. . . annoying. And speaking of verbal fillers, one of my biggest pet peeves ever!!! have you listened to our President-Elect? When he doesn't have HIS security blanket of already written out comments (which I might add were written by someone else) he doesn't know what to say and uses a verbal filler about every other word! This may just be the gospel according to Nichole, but I think that the adversary uses our digital age of communication to tempt people into not having that human connection anymore and to just seclude themselves behind a piece of technology. It's hard to really know someone that way. By the way, I think Bryce and I are like you guys. We do everything together too. There is hardly any problems that arise from a lack of communication. Wow, this was a long comment. Sorry about that. I guess I could have just picked up the phone and said all this stuff to you in person. :-)
In response to Nichole, uh, like, uh, huh? You know what I mean? :)
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