Personal Narrative-Verbal Or Nonverbal Communication?

I think everyone can relate to some sort experience that has happened in your life when you thought that all was well, but the reality was that it wasn’t. It took something really tragic to happen for you to find out that someone you loved had secrets. All of the things that you thought of that person is shattered into a million pieces and you’re left there trying to sort through them trying to choose the ones you want to hang on too and the ones that you would sweep up and throw away forever. The conversations that you have with those you love sometimes still leave unanswered answers to why someone that was supposed to take care of you decided that someone was more important than you.
It was March 1st, 1993, my Grandmother has passed away 4 days earlier. What I didn’t know was that my dad secretly remarried a woman I didn’t know the day after my Grandmothers passing. I was only 15 years old that time, and I just lost my mother 6 months prior. We were all getting ready for the viewing and my sister asks me to ask my Dad what he did over the weekend. I was …show more content…
That is what I find hard with Nonverbal communication it doesn’t matter what the person says or doesn’t say it is what you receive from that conversation is what ultimately matters. In this painful conversation that I had with my dad still brings an emotional attachment to that day and how it made me feel about him and about myself. It was one conversation that I have never forgotten. It changed the course of my life. I would not consider it a successful conversation, but one that I reflect on a lot and I think that I have used it as a template in my life, not as an example of not to follow. It has made me an open person, where I chose to share more than I probably need to, but I hope that people will always say that I was an honest and open person and that I always told the