It's Just Talk

I'll be straight forward with this.

I find it funny and absurd to observe how people dislike the discomforts of honest communication.  Yes, it can be masked by a talkative, ranting front of a persona, but it can never be faked. We can talk all we want without saying anything.

Real communication involves skilled conversation. It is rich experience with both parties learning from each other by the exchange of ideas. It demands honesty, which nurtures mutual trust in the process.

It also implies the pulling down of defenses at a level  where both parties meet halfway.

If music be the language of the soul, an introvert snob musician is an oxymoron.  How can one be the audience's resonating voice, when one can't even communicate?

While a painter splashes random colors on the canvas to evoke emotions and provide catharsis, why the lamb's silence and incoherent 'spaced-out' statements during a normal conversation?

There must be something incongruous with a dynamic and highly motivational speaker who can not clearly confront and deal with what happens within the organization. Enough said.

Social networking hits big, because it feeds the anonymity and irresponsibility in us. We click and remain invisible. We watch and remain irresponsible.

Armed with ignorant bliss, we act as judges and click the dislike button for the few well meaning souls who simply  share what they have to the world. When pressed for a logical reason, we resort to ad hominem arguments and simply walk out.

We love to hide behind the walls called protocol, we enjoy the sterility of clean hands and call it delegation. We do not want to hear the piercing unadulterated truth uncovered by real conversation. It stings, it is uncomfortable, it takes time, it derails us from our planned schedules, we do not want it.

Conversation demands work, just like a lot of things. The more one digs deeper, deeper meaning is unearthed.  Unless , we all love to live the lie and would want to keep the truth buried until kingdom come.

 TianoBM2012

  

MEANWHILE, here's Pat Metheny with the track of the same title, '(It's Just) Talk' from the album 'Still Life (Talking)'. 

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