When I think of the word communication a few things come to mind, first being conversation, and styles of conversation. If we wanted to delve deeper into styles of conversation we could go into dialogue; how we communicate, word choice, sentence structure (or lack there of)—etc. I’d like to think I’ve become sensitive in the way in which I communicate, but I suppose we can never be 100% sure if people are receiving us the way we’d like to be.

I mostly live alone, so apart from internal dialogue and some minor self-mumbling not a lot of communication is happening in my home. In terms of community, mine is pretty stylized being that I live, work, and socialize primarily in Crown Heights. Good communication amongst the people I’m close to is natural, just so, easy, you don’t have to think about it—lack of tit-for-tat, leveled. I’ve come to a point in my life where small talk is mostly unnecessary, I’d rather not talk at all if it doesn’t bring some kind of conscious relevance to the table, my circle in similar in this way, so we communicate well.

Undesirable communication is everywhere. What’s the most undesirable form of communication? Being talked at versus spoken to. I get this a lot as a bartender, however it’s far more frustrating on the day-to-day when it’s not apart of my job description. We’ve all been a victim to the “talker” I’m sure you know the type, they usually show little interest in having a mutual conversation, rather they tend to dominate the word flow and much of the time they aren’t saying anything relevant to… anything.

Overall, communication is slanted from person to person. We’d probably live in a pretty peaceful world of on “way” of communication was established; the odds of this happening are slim to none.