Isn’t it amazing how
sometimes you can tell someone how you feel without saying a word? How your
hands could make beauty out of just a pencil and paper? How you can make someone
cry by the movement of your body? Be it in a good or bad way. Our emotions and
our feelings are not limited by the sound that we form by our mouths. Sometimes,
talking doesn’t do us any good. Sometimes, silence could speak the loudest of
words. And sometimes, words just can’t comfort us.
Explaining communication and
its importance is like explaining living. Our bodies won’t function the way it
should without it sending signals to each organ that we have. There would be no
coordination in our movements and not a part of us would be in sync. We won’t
be able to have everything we need without communication and personally, I
truly believe that without it…we would have been dead by now and there would be
no life on earth at all. Signals, hormones, chemicals, molecules…all of these
use some form of communication in order for them to be what they have to be in
order to form and sustain life.
Our voices are the primary
source of communication. For others, their means of communication is through
their talents. Some chose to sing and touch the lives of many out there, some
chose to dance and they move the hearts of their viewers while others chose to
use their writing to convey the message that they can’t express with their
voices. I am astounded by how these kinds of people who use different ways of
expression can make us cry, laugh and feel scared. You might not notice but
often you find yourself singing along to the lyrics of your favourite song
because it speaks to how you currently feel, you often find yourself gawking at
the pure madness of how dancers move their bodies, and you often find yourself
immersed in a book, drowning in how amazing the author is.
There are a few lucky ones out there who are
given the talent to speak up in front of crowds, Abraham Lincoln for example.
He who used his talent in speech changed the ways of the people in the United
States of America. He used it in order to promote equality for his people and
to abolish slavery among the Negros.
16 years of living and I have
chosen to communicate through my paintings. Yes, I still use my power of speech
and writing but I have discovered for a long time ago that I do it best when I
use art. Often times, I don’t…well, I never have the guts to say or to express
what I feel so I put it down as an image and just hope that the person would
understand what I’m trying to say. To be honest, it is hard to use my art form
to say how I feel because not many out there are willing to make an effort to
understand but this is what I can do…this is what I use.
Communicating is not easy.
Communicating is not just by the words you say but the depth of what you have
to say. It takes courage to express what you feel and to fight for what you
believe in. Our own ways of communicating is our gift. We are not given the freedom
to use it as an option. It is like breathing and this is what we are given to
do.
“Confess to yourself in the
deepest hour of the night whether you would have to die if you were forbidden
to write. Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your
being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write?” - Stefani Joanne Angelina
Germanotta, songwriter and performer.
