I was having this rather interesting conversation with my mom the other day about friends and people that we care about in our lives. She raised this very very interesting point that made me go "Oooohohhhh, never thought about it that way before." What was this point you may ask? Simple, she said this: Communication is an essential part of caring for another. While that thought has been running around in my head for a very long time, I've never actually been able to put it into words. Why isit that we have best friends and girlfriends and boyfriends and whatnot, and what leads to the formation and subsequent (possible) deterioration of these relationships? Communication of course! It is indeed a simple baseline, we cannot care for somebody with which we cannot communicate.
At the same time, I guess I'm going through a communication breakdown, I've found it's all to easy to misunderstand and assume that something means what it isn't. Simultaneously, this very situation has been tiring me out as having to tread so carefully while watching both verbal and non-verbal language is exhausting. Whew.