What Message are you Receiving?

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We are constantly communicating. We can be sitting in a lecture room listening to a lecturer or catching up with our friends about how drunk we got on the weekend. We are either sending a text to your best friend about how bored you are or replying to a group chat or uploading a status or photo to a social media platform. No matter how we are communicating, it is always happening. Within every piece of information given, a certain message is received. Even if it is the simplest of messages. Such as, if I were to text my best friend, complaining and say “I’m so tired”, then my message means exactly that … I am tired. (This actually happened today)

Being in a communication and media class I expected to be learning strictly about the media and possibly how people communicate and the tools of which they use. But today this did not happen. What I took away from this felt more like a life lesson rather than a Uni lecture.

A medium can be anything, from a form of social media right to the colour we decide to wear that day, all of which tells us something and essentially sends us a message. The message of anything is the effect that it has on us. In saying this, things don’t happen by accident, everything happens for a reason. Anything that happens, no matter how big or how small, is meant to happen or is meant to be a certain way. This is how I then begun to relate it to life, in particular, my life.

People come and go in life. It’s just how it is. But when someone who means so much to you leaves it’s like a part of you leaves with them. But hey, everything happens for a reason right? This can be hard to grasp at times because we want to hold onto something so badly but it doesn’t matter how hard you hold on, how hard you try to make it better or how much you want it all back, if you are meant to let go then life will make sure you let go. In this case, the medium is how they left and the message is the lesson they taught you. Does that make sense? Well it does to me.

I have probably gotten totally carried away with the lesson this week and took it way too deep but it helped me to understand what we spoke about. So what exactly did I learn?

I learnt that media is always changing and evolving which then forces us and our mindsets to also always change and evolve to suit the media. Which is exactly like life. Life is always changing, things are always happening and we are always evolving which then leads to us and our mindsets also having to change to suit our new lives.

In the words of Ted, “everything is on purpose and nothing is accidental”. It’s crazy to me that he said this, because it is exactly what I needed to hear at this point in my life.

Let It Be, R.