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Communication is The Key
When you have a problem with someone, you ultimately have the ability to address them about the issue.
We human beings are gifted with a myriad of means to communicate. We can talk, text, use hand gestures and body language, and even a combination of most of these to express ourselves to one another.
You can tell people things they did not know, or help them to understand your point of view. Or you can choose not to. But however you decide, the power of communication can be used for all sorts of different things.
You can express your thoughts and feelings. With communication, you can explain, educate, help, hurt, harm, heal…it goes on and on. Communication opens you and me up to be able to get to know one another and share experiences, good, bad, or indifferent.
Even knowing this, it still leads to an important question. Why are people so afraid of direct communication?
How often do you hear things about people from other people? What do you do when you learn from one friend that another friend is displeased with you about something? Why do people find it so very much easier to talk ABOUT people than to talk TO people?
The power of communication can be used to build or destroy, foment positivity or negativity. On the opposite side of this same coin, lack of communication is…
