Musing: Communication

I have found that communication can take on many abstract models, getting to be as simple as the very clothes we wear. Our own shirts and pants are woven together by threads and fibers, sewn together by carefully established decisions made by the weaver. In the same way, every encounter we have in our lives becomes enriched in communication, and contributes a valuable thread to the tapestry that makes us who we are. These fibers mold us as we sew together our very identity from the things we learn, the things we accept and the things we reject. They affect the way we communicate in the future, which adds more threads to the ever-growing work that is our identity, creating entire outfits of identity that we may even sometimes change depending on our surrounding demographic. Ultimately, our communications and how we interpret them and respond to them will determine the kind of outfit we put on as we continue into the winding roads of life, having careers and families, adjusting our attitudes to fit appropriately or being the wild and untamed beast in the family. As the artisans of our identity, it is crucial that we become skilled in our craft and learn to identify which fibers and threads will complete the outfit we desire to wear as our identity, and which will risk tearing our identities apart.