Speaking Versus Blogging

Speaking is one of the most common forms of communication. In our day to day life, whatever may be the career, speaking to each other, is inevitable. When two people (or more) speak to each other it becomes a conversation, and is generally the most effective way of communication. However as I observe in my own little surroundings, improper communication is also the most common cause of all mis-managed inter-personal relationships.

We speak for various reasons. We speak to share our experiences, relieve ourselves, or to explain some thing we know or to ask about some thing that we don't know or to just impress some one:-) In most of these cases, when we speak, we need to speak to a person! This is not so obvious because we can also speak to ourselves or can speak to God.

If you had ever thought about it, you would have realized that, the act of speaking is not as simple as it appears to be. There are many processes which are carried out without our consciousness. For instance, we should first decide on what is the message we want to convey. Then we have to frame the words and sentences that we want to speak, so that the message is conveyed to the listener. There is an additional step of translation if what we have to speak is not in our mother tongue. After all this,when we start to speak, it is very likely that we are interrupted in between by the listener. The flow of our thoughts is broken. This then causes additional difficulty. We have to understand what the listener had understood from our words. Then we try to carry out the entire process described above (think of message, phrase the words, translate) and try to clear the mis-understanding. All this has to be done without losing the sight of what we wanted to convey to start with. Generally it so happens that we spend time thinking what to say rather than listening to our conversation partner. If same is the case with the second person, then most likely none of the two can drive home the message to the other.

In the case of Blogging, like what i am doing now, we have sufficient time to think and re-think on what we want to say. We can read what we wrote from the perspective of the reader (not so easy probably!) We also have choice to phrase and re-phrase our words. And most importantly we are NOT interrupted from flow of our thoughts. We can say what we want to say to the completion. This may even improve clarity of what we want to convey. The price of this clarity is that, as you would have guessed it by now, it is much slower.

I hope You got a hint of why I am writing all this by now.. There are instances when what we want to convey is not straight forward. It may be to deal with emotions, to clear mis-understanding or just due to the complexity of the subject it self. In such cases, I guess it would be worth while to sit down and write what we want to say and hand over the written message to the concerned.

I feel that this is the main reason why Blogging has become one of the favorite means of sharing our opinions.. What do you think?!!