Driving along, thinking thoughts this morning.....
The various vagaries of communication between people was wandering across the mostly defoliated fields of my mind.
As I'm usually thinking about one person, and usually the one person...this time it was about communication in personal ways. How wonderful it is that two people can say so much, in such depth, with so few words. Why is that, I questioned....
In working through technical communications, words usually lead to more words. Precise sentences assembled carefully, in order logically, with tangents explored in depth as needed. Were I to try and explain how to test a simple throttle position sensor, I would need to explore the type of signal it puts out, what it is measuring, why it measures it, and the various forms of test equipment. Digital volt-ohm meter to be used for this reading, a graphing multimeter for that measure, and a digital storage oscilloscope for a wave form.
Why such a long treatise for testing that might take less than five minutes to do? It's required to bridge the gap in understanding. Someone asking how to do that testing needs the background information to do it correctly. If they had it, if they understood already, they wouldn't be reading up on how to do it.
Now... compare that to my alter ego. We communicate with nothing more complicated than a few whispered words, a glance. Volumes pass across the gap between us. Whole lifetimes slide across tendrils of shared thoughts, with not a word spoken.
The difference.... is this: What's common doesn't need to be said. What we share in common need not be mentioned, except to accentuate the moment. When we can finish each others sentences, each others thoughts..... why waste breath with unnecessary words?
Communication..... different things in different situations. From long and sometimes frustrating bashing at insurmountable barriers, to life giving moments that last forever in silence.
1 comment:
So very true, and so well spoken.
Thanks for sharing that with all of us.
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