Lets play, lets communicate...

Being father of three kids I find it very true that communication can and should be considered as patterned interaction. Especially when I observe my kids grow up. When my son began trying to speak, the first thing he started with was catching our attention. Then he was trying to say something, but as every kid when starts talking but it sounds like nonsense sounds, we couldn’t get what he was trying to say. Later, when we learned his language a bit our communication began to bring fruits. Even though other people couldn’t understand what our boy was asking, we clearly knew what he wanted. We were playing by the same rules of communication that other people didn’t know. 

Another example, when we can clearly see how communication is like a game. Lets imagine situation when we meet a new person. In order to get this person know better we need some time to learn rules of communication. We need to catch up on how to interpret acts of that person. After some time, we come to the point where we can read game rules with a shorter time. Pretty often I need just one glance from my wife to understand what she wants. But it didn’t happened immediately after I met her. After being married for over 8 years we created our rules of game, which is know as communication.