RICHARD ORTICIO MARCH 02, 2022

BSE_1A2ND SEMESTER

GE5: PURPOSIVE COMMUNICATION

PRE-LECTURE TASK: DESIDERATA

Communication is part of people’s everyday life, and it is something that can’t

take off from them since from the beginning to the end of their day. It becomes
their daily habit, aside from other routines that they always did every time they
woke-up from their beds. Through communicating with someone else, may it be
our friends, classmates, colleagues, teachers and family, there are lessons that
we grasp from every story that they speak and tell, because communication may
it be in a verbal or non-verbal way if we want to hear what is the main point of the
topic, then there will be a knowledge and lesson that we can learn. In
communicating with someone else it is very important to know that we should not
always talk something about us if isn’t necessarily, because base on the Poem
Desiderata “Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the
dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive
persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you
may become vain or bitter, for all.” This part of the poem hits me different while
reading it, this means that in communication, it was a process of give and take,
because if you only speak good and positive things all the time about yourself,
you’re not communicating, you were just bragging because the main purpose of
doing such communication is to listen to the their story, stories that we can give
immediate response or feedback in a positive and ethical manner. Other
philosophers said that communication is the tail for understanding, and for me it
was indeed a fact, because there we’re be no war, chaos, and other tragic event
made by human if we all just listen and speak with all our hearts and with all our
souls, because misunderstanding will lead to something undesirable.
The second lesson that I mesmerize and captured my attention is the “GO
PLACIDLY amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be
in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all
persons.” Barriers of communication is unavoidable, but somehow challenging
and provoking, forasmuch as we know what we are doing and if we only listen
carefully to the story and message of the person whom we communicate with,
berries will be just a sound of air, whispering and murmuring into our minds and
ears. Do not hasten as communication takes time for us to learn and for us to
grow, sometimes we ended up feeling bored and annoyed because of the time it
takes from us in listening to the peoples message, we shouldn’t there will be a
wisdom that we can use in our everyday life.