Perception and Understanding

Heyo everyone, this week's blog is about miscommunication and making sure what you want the world to know is being perceived properly.

When working with someone, we always bow and shake their hand afterwards. This shows the respect and friendliness between the two people, and it's often accompanied by a small phrase, like "well done" or "good job". However, I also like to use "thank you." Every time I work with somebody, I always learn something new and I always improve. I find that by thanking them for what they have taught me is fairly necessary, as is thanking them for being a good partner. However, if someone says good job and you follow it up with thank you, you may seem somewhat arrogant, in my opinion. You just received a compliment, so you should compliment back, especially given the context. So, despite the sincerity I find in saying thank you, I don't think it often comes across as well as I'd like it to.

It made me realize how often and how easy it is for us to miscommunicate, and to be misinterpreted. It leads you to wonder, what the world would be like if everybody understood everyone else. Their intentions, their purposes, everything they work and fight for. I'd like to think that the world would be a more peaceful place. With everyone understanding each other, people will get along a lot easier, and with such cooperation comes a level of natural harmony. However, that's not possible. Not today. We can't understand everybody's thoughts and intentions, the motives and the driving purpose. The only thing we can understand is ourselves.

With that, I realized that six harmonies is truly just that. Perfect understanding and cooperation within our body. Yet obtaining the six harmonies is no easy feat. If reaching Perfect Harmony and understanding within ourselves is so difficult, it goes to show how difficult it would be to obtain it between 7 billion people. Peace of the world is something we all want, we all desire. Yet peace within ourselves is something we must strive to achieve first.

I'd also like to say thanks to Mr. Sollinger for saying "good job" right before I said "thank you", which gave me the idea for this blog.