Dialog, the dance of life

"It takes two to tango" so the saying goes, and this is most evident in all our daily communications. When engaging in a conversation, and dance of verbal as well as non-verbal takes place right before our very eyes. Like real life dancing, the words and actions omitted by an individual in the conversation plays off each other, with one relying on the other to synchronize itself to form meaningful patterns and vocal comprehension.

A misstep taken in a dance a lead to disastrous results, the same goes for a conversation. Like real dancers,where both will have to anticipate every step that their partners do. If this does not happen, then the dance moves will not have a flow to it and the routine will look terrible in front of the audience. Likewise, when engaging in open dialog, it vital that we take note of the individual that we are facing, what their preferences are, what would their most likely answer to a question be, their past experiences with the topic, etc. Doing all these and many more will help make a conversation go smoother as we can readily anticipate what our next uttered sentence would be as we would have already analyse these factors, thus reducing the possibility of miscommunication happening.

Also, like a dance, there must be music accompanying it. Without music, the dancers will not have a rhythm to follow to and the dance will cease to be graceful. This music in communicating would be the situation which a person finds themselves in during a conversation. For example, if an aunt of a friend has just passed away, you don't go towards that person and joke around and act like a fool when all that was needed was a few consoling words to soothe a grieving heart. Situations like these are what most of us would encounter at least once within our lifetime. So, listen out to the music and you might just find yourself to be the most competent 'dancer' in all your conversations.