Personal Narrative: My Relationship With A Soccer Team

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My Relationship with my team was a relationship that I will never forget because it has taught me so much, that will be useful in my current and future relationships. In my relationship with my soccer team, each of our listening skills was appalling, which is really saying that we lacked in communication. Listening is taking up a sound and giving it a meaning (p.135). Listening is very important in a relationship. In my future and current relationships, I will improve my listening skills for a better outcome. With my relationship with my soccer team, listening was never in action, someone was always blaming the other and the other teammate was blaming someone else, and it was just ended in a big mess. I have to say, listening would have probably

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