No matter how you look at it.

All theories are rooted to a common ground. All of them pertain to a source and a receiver, the message to be exchanged, the encoding, decoding, and how the source and the receiver switch tasks. But how come there are still newer(maybe a little bit better) theories coming one after the other? Man always struggles to put meaning and explanation to everything he experiences. And maybe that is what is happening in the world of communication. The piling up of theories somehow show that man hasn't defined its behavior down to the very last detail. Maybe that's because of its infinite mysterious ways as to how it is done. Yes, mysterious ways like how do you know that some person behind you is staring at you when you don't even have eyes at the back of your head? How was that information received? That, I hope, man could explain.

What is Communication?

The only words I remember since the last class session was that communication can be related with the words social, symbols, and interaction. After years of believing that communication was equal to talking, the last session actually brought up my interest. Now, from the things I remember, there was this one thing that talked about intrapersonal communication. That's one thing that struck me the most. I never thought that thinking or examining myself was a form of communication. But after some moments of leaving my physical body in class pretending to be still listening to the discussion, I understood. I do communicate with myself. Those moments when I am about to decide, I tell myself to do this or that, with a lot of "what if's" popping around, I am indulged into a conversation with myself. It is pretty amazing the way I see it. I never thought of communication that way. I do hope that the next class sessions would satisfy my eagerness to explore the realm of communication. Talking seems to be such a small word now.