Information transfer or exchange between two or more individuals.
I.e. Message is expressed, delivered and received.
Interpretation and reply?
Functional?
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We have different levels of skill and ability to send and receive information.
Communication achieves intended goals when we’re understood as we would like to be.
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We have varying ability to express, receive, understand and reply to succeed at communication.
We depend on the medium every day:
Public speaking
Performance
Art
Science
Small talk
Chat with friends
Written word
Print v. online
Interactive or not
Functionality depends on ability, medium and goals.
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Goals.
What do we hope to accomplish with communication?
This can be an individual goal or a mutual goal.
We may be looking for understanding.
We may be looking for agreement and/or action, like a response.
Communication can seem successful from one perspective but not from another.
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We may choose a medium but not have the ability to communicate effectively due to lack of skill in expressing and/or because the intended receiver has poor comprehension and/or the medium is too challenging.
Successful communication also comes from setting realistic goals for action or understanding.
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In consideration of goals, it’s necessary to plan boundaries: We don’t want to limit expression, but we should highly prioritise collective health and wellness in our consideration, for the benefit of ourselves and others.
Communication should maintain or improve quality of life.
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If the goal of communication is to relay an accurate message, it’s useful to be as clear and defining as possible,
but remember more effort may be needed
such as repetition and reinforcement.
Some may have a hard time to comprehend & retain a message.
Others may have trouble expressing.
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When urgency weighs in, boundaries may go out the window.
Some people have limited ability to control expression in urgency while others may not know how to react.
People may feel an urgent need to communicate, but others don’t see the reason for urgency and/or there is no good mutual reason.
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If we agree to communicate
it becomes easier.
We observe boundaries and find ways to share understanding.
One key boundary is established
but often crossed:
Don’t be harmful.
Communication can be harmful due to
* Intentional breach of duty
* Influence of social conventions
* Misunderstanding
* Accident
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How to prepare to avoid harm
for ourselves and all others:
Look into it.
Take steps.
Always communicate to help;
A natural expectation
but if we reach out to consider all affected, it has a likelihood of creating more wellness, a better place to live and better communication moving forward.
In the hearts of many, love can be the most important thing in the world.
Is it?
In what definition?
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It seems that the common idea of love is key to some of the very most important and enduring relationships in our life,
potentially giving us friendship, romance and joy.
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There are different definitions of love.
This is mine:
Love: a powerful, often intense, binding feeling that we develop for someone or something that we are attracted to and want to share time with or at least have wishes of wellness for.
To me, well-wishes are essential to love.
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My definition seems functional, boiled down to possible longing to spend time together and essential well-wishes.
To me intensity separates love from liking, where love involves more commitment to goals of sharing time and ensuring wellness, whereas ‘liking’ involves less dedication.
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The distinction where desire to spend time together isn’t essential to love
but wishes for wellness are, seems clear. I.e. We can love all life and wish the best but not necessarily want to be with all life. Love in this sense reflects intense caring even in the absence of compatibility.
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For me inclusion vitalizes this equation; Love should include general well-wishes for all.
Is Love the most important thing in the world?
That’s totally a perspective;
It seems likely that the more love and care there is to reduce harm and disdain, the better we will function together.
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Functionality and Love?
To me, they go hand in hand.
Love involves caring, nurturing and protecting.
It can lead to cooperation, collaboration and joy. All the products of love and actions in love can help create a better quality of life. What could be more functional than that?
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Sure love can go bad and hurt
in the sense of romantic love especially or in any loss of love or in unrequited love
but at least in the definition I maintain, general well-wishes and the powerful benefits should far outweigh the tough moments.
Love unites people more than it divides.
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Heartbreak is awful but it is arguably better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.
The benefits of uniting so people live, work and achieve together, have joy together, logically helps in a direction to develop a better quality of life for everyone and everything.
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To me, if love is the key to improving quality of life in the world, which it very well could be, then it is the most important thing in the world.
Love is about caring, inclusion, patience and affection.
If we love each other, we are working together for a better world. ☮️&♥️
MacroMichael 