Communication

 

Subject: Communication

Communication is such a difficult thing to achieve. Even the words I use in this blog may be understood by different people in different ways. 

There is though another type of communication, communication through music and watching a program based on the life of conductor Bernard Haitink, one was drawn into a world of subtlety and tension, a world of tenderness and respect, a world of interpretation especially of the music of Gustav Mahler  or Richard Wagner the  controversial German composer who was used by Hitler to describe the special talent the German nation held in the world of classical music, some sort of civilised pinnacle. That strange  confliction  the Germans have between the the bestial instincts of the Gestapo and the longstanding tradition of German exceptionality in the field of music and in academia as a whole.

The music of Mahler for instance is a layered geological dig, of light and dark, of deep emotional texture where the very pauses, the silence between the passages of music deliver an ethereal sensation which can bring tears to the eyes.

This then is another form of  communication which for those who enjoy it indicates an opportunity an inner ability to understand both themselves and each other, possibly beyond words, it plucks at some sort of inner sensibility which when struck vibrates through to ones very being.

Laughter and story telling are the props of good communication.anyone who can hold an audience with a series of jokes or has a way with a story is a communicator but theirs is a different form of communicating not the one of having a sympathetic ear to the the travails of a friend or a lover. The blend of listening and understanding, of fitting their emotion to yours is a gift not many people have. We often plead lack of time, lack of interest, lack of empathy but in fact we are in danger of missing a great opportunity to start to understand someone properly. Throw it away by pleading a poverty of something or other and it may never come again