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Human Communication And Communication

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Communication is one of the most important skills a person can develop. While simple, it is a key element of what makes us human. The ability to talk with another person allows us to create relationships that would never be possible if we could not communicate with one another. Interacting with each other is often the quickest way to understand someone else regardless of who they are. Although, when we communicate with others we use more than just our voices. A number of other senses are vital to the way we connect with others. The most important of these, in my opinion, would be sight, touch, and sound. However, if one or more of these senses were missing from the equation, would it be inevitable for a friendship to fail? I began a …show more content…

While I couldn’t see her or anyone else in the call, I felt a connection to them, and especially to her just based on how well we got along from the beginning. Group calls were replaced by private calls soon after I met her. Belle and I would spend nearly every day until 5 A.M. talking together over Skype or text and playing video games together. Neither of us knew what the other looked like and we had never met face to face, but that did not matter to either of us. We spent a few months just as friends like this, but it was obvious to both of us that we had feels for each other. During the month of August, it was finally time to become more than friends. I asked her, and we decided to begin dating on August 18th, 2016. From there we continued to call every day until September, which was the most life changing part of this whole experience for me. My family was planning to go on vacation to Florida in September, and little did they know, Belle lived in southern Florida. Belle and I went back and forth trying to find a way that we could meet each other as soon as I told her about the trip. Afraid of how my parents would respond to both me wanting to visit a stranger and me having a girlfriend, I hid our plans for as long as I could. Eventually, I knew that I would have to tell someone, and so I went to my mom to ask permission to meet with Belle and her dad. I showed her a map to the park we wanted to go to, which was a large open public place with many people

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