Communication is Irreversible Part 2

Communication can be defined as a deliberate or accidental transfer of meaning… as long as what someone does is interpreted as a message; as long as the behaviour of one person affects or influence the behaviour of another communication occurring - Gamble & Gamble (1996).

The principle of communication I’m going to be dealing on is that communication is irreversible. Indeed, there are at times you could wish you hadn’t said something and you could apologise for something you said - but you can’t take it back. Such words may result in repairable damages while some may result in damages that would totally destroy certain relationships.

I am a keyboard warrior and always active on social media platforms. On a norm, I do post about political, religious and commercial activities going on around the world. As expected, there would be some people who always will find hate in my speeches, yet I do not respond to comments left on my blog. I prefer going to other people’s blog and leave comments there instead.

On a certain day, I violated my said rule and I had to reply someone’s infuriating comment on my twitter handle. Along the line, the said person threw an insult of which I reciprocated back with an insult. This action resulted in loss of temper and exchange of words occurred, hence resulting in a damaged relationship with a commenter on my blog. Also, my replies and insult were also seen by fellow twitter followers and I had to make a public apology on my handle. Though later, apologies were rendered, yet those words that were said earlier can at no point ever be taken back.

A different approach can be taken in a manner that I would have never have replied in such manner to the other party provocative comment. This would have not resulted in such exchange and no unwanted communication would have occurred.

Conclusively, we should know that communication once sent can never be reversed and thus, this should remind us that what we say and do matters a lot.