Personal Narrative: The Three Levels Of Communication

During this weekend, I can say that I experienced all three levels of communication. It is something that at first, I did not realize that I was being that particular way. During the course of my day, then I would realize. For example, the I-It communication level is something that I experience everyday and I’m sure we all do. When I pick up my coffee, when I buy clothes, and when I walk into a store etc. During the weekend, I went into a store and one of the employees greeted me with a “hello…how are you..welcome to______” I responded “good, and you?” she responded with a “good.” That was it. After that I didn’t see her in the store anymore. As I realized that I did this, it struck me that I answered a question with such ambiguity and when she replied, I didn’t care what she had said. What I said was something out of custom; to a point that I didn’t see her as a girl, I saw her as an object or to say a figure that was in my way. Where …show more content…
In a classroom setting, I introduce myself and vice-versa, we talk a little bit of where we are from, our majors, etc but nothing really seems to develop from there. I interact with them but not in a personal level. The same goes with many of my co-workers, we chit chat about our weekend plans and certain customers that are a pain but at the end of the night, I leave work without saying goodbye because frankly, I wouldn’t be devastated if I never saw them again. I believe this is how we see most of our Biola peers. A thought similar to this came to my mind the other day; how we meet people for a while and then we never see them again. They become a distant memory and so do I. Many of my peers, I know them, their names even but outside a classroom setting maybe we smile and wave but there is not a core foundation of friendship. This type of level of communication did leave me wondering how many times we pass up a great friendship when we don’t search beyond