Hello, Bloggers!
Long time, no type... I am struggling through the intro! So, I suppose it is time for me to start writing again. I guess that I needed to write more than I realized. I find that it can be quite therapeutic and ranting a little every now and again helps to de-stress life. Besides, what is life without a little ranting and raving? We would have a lot of very bland personalities!
I have finally come to the realization that no two people on this earth speak the same language. Sure, we may call it "English" or "Spanish" or even "French" or whatever the common name is for the general syllables and letters that we pronounce, but we have so many misunderstandings on a regular basis. This is because many of the words that we use quite commonly are words that we learned the meaning of by inferred methods which is a logical instinct we have that helps us to learn the meanings of words before we have any understanding of words at all. In other words, how babies learn to speak. Therein lies the problem with the languages we speak. Each word has a unique meaning and many, many, words have a secondary, third or even fourth or more meaning that does not conform to the standard. Not to mention all of the slang words that we (the human race) just made up and added to the dictionary so that we would have a word that rhymes with orange. That's how we got the word "Xurang", which means "word that rhymes with orange and sounds cool". I digress...
All of this to say; Guys don't understand every word that another guys is saying, but they understand the concept and the general idea. Guys understand every single word that a girl says, but can not seem to digest the concept or the general idea. (Sorry, I have not yet figured out what girls understand)
I have been married for a few years and I thought that I understood this concept when I got married. How naive. I explained to my new wife that this was a problem in many relationships and asked her to understand that this was something that we could work through by being very deliberate about the words that we used. She agreed and we enjoyed our brilliant success.
We weren't speaking the same language.
