The Importance of Communication

“In the beginning was the Word.” This is how the religious describes the origin of all things. For them, God is a great communicator and made everything to communicate to Him and with each other.

Whether one is religious or not, each of us know that communication is important. In fact, it is life. Try to imagine life without communication. No one likes that. It’s like living in an island cut off from everything. But it’s more than that. Because even though we are alone, we still communicate to ourselves.

You still remember the time when you were day dreaming, imagining your crush, and rehearsing what to say the moment you meet him. Then unconsciously, you began murmuring to yourself. The murmur was coupled with a smile and the smile turned into kilig. And then you began voicing your thoughts and your barkada heard you talking and looked at you with crossed brows and said, “nababaliw ka na ata ah?” It was an embarrassing moment but that was self-communicating.

We communicate because communication is built within us. We exist to communicate. It is as basic as the air we breathe. Without it no one can live. Having it, you’re still alive even if you communicate to the dead.

It was because of the hunger to communicate that telephone was invented. As people multiply and travel around the world, the distance between their “loved ones” increased. This demands a long distance communication which was at first met by letters. But letters is limited through time and space. A better means of communication is needed. Telephone answered the need. The word telephone came from two Greek words: tēle, and phōnē which mean far and voice respectively. It is excellent invention that enables us to hear our lovers’ voice from afar. Through the invention of telephone, friends, family, lovers and even enemies can hear each other’s voice at once.

Nowadays, with the rapid advancement of technology, communication comes at the speed of light with colors and styles. But no matter how advanced our gadgets are; we owe everything to the creator of communication and the inventor of telephone.