Communication is…
Reaching out to yourself in others
And allowing them to reach out to themselves in you.
It is daring to share…
And caring enough to be real.

There is no US against THEM.
There is only you and I…
And all that we can give to one another.
We are not here to be right…
Or to make each other wrong.
We are only here to learn…
And to help each other grow along the way.

I could learn so much from you…
If you’d only let me look at the world through your eyes for awhile…
And see the way it looks to you.
And if you were to see the way it looks to me…
You might learn something too.
Because to me…
Communication…
Is just another word for caring.

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My Friend
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