Communication Quicksand

Communication can be so hard sometimes. You can go around in circles for hours. We’re listening to the words but we don’t hear the meanings. Add positions to defend and we could be talking in languages alien to each other for all the good it does. The inability to get the point across leads to resentment and communication further deteriorates. And it spirals on.

Till somebody breaks out—pulls back to take another look at the picture, and then jumps back in to reassure everybody that nobody’s positions are being threatened. Let me try that and see if it works.