Is communication necessary?

 Why is communication important? First off, what is communication? Communication can be the words you choose or the tone of your voice, but it can also be nonverbal, like body language. The words you decide to use and the tone of your voice that you use with those words can help you verbally express how you feel. However, your body language speaks volumes more than words can. The way you stand or how you rest your arms, but the biggest factor is your facial expressions. For many people, they don’t always realize that they are giving themselves away with the face that they make.

The way we use our communication will also help or destroy our relationships. In my experience, there are people who don’t speak up until it's too late. What I mean by that is that people don’t express their feelings, and they just let it build up until it blows up in someone’s face. Emotional build up can lead to an outburst and then fighting. If we don’t regularly express our emotions with our partner, there tends to be more falling out. 

On the other hand, if you are able to express your emotions, but your partner is not receptive and just ignores how you feel, this also does not go well. This can make it seem that your partner doesn't care about you. We need to remember to acknowledge each other's emotions and be able to express ours. Doing both of these can help the relationship. 

Having mutual self disclosure will also help your relationship. Communicating what you like or don’t like and listening to your spouse about what they like and don’t like, will improve your relationship. Both need to disclose and both need to listen to the other. A relationship goes two ways. If there is only one way, it is unhealthy. This is not just for marriage relationships, but also friendships, sibling relationships, even our relationship with our Heavenly Father. 

Heavenly Father is always waiting for us to turn to Him, but we don’t always do this. Then we are upset when our plans don’t work out how we wanted without remembering Heavenly Father’s plan. We ask for what we want and when we want it, while not taking into consideration his plan. We need to remember to include Him and get His perspective and ask for His direction.

Communication is very important, we use it in everything we do on a daily basis. Whether you’re buying groceries, or if you are just going for a walk, you are going to talk to people, or communicate that you don’t want to talk to people. We are social, we are supposed to communicate with others. The world today is drowning out how we need to communicate. With the invention of social media, our communication skills have plummeted.

Many children have trouble speaking to others since their parents don’t talk to them as much as they used to. Many people don’t even know how to write a simple letter anymore. Without constant communication, we become much more reclusive, and we get more anxious.  Levels of anxiety have skyrocketed with social media. The world has gotten us to think that social media is the only way of communication. We don’t even have proper grammar anymore. Many children don’t know where commas go, and many don’t have a big vocabulary. 

We need more face- to- face communication. Social media and texting are easier, but we rely on them too often. Communication takes constant work, and we need to work on those skills every day. I know this is why people choose to text rather than call others, because it’s easier. Hopefully, one day we can get a better grasp on our communication again. I don’t think people fully understand its importance.