What builds a happy home? What builds a happy country? What builds a happy world?
Well, that's a big question and the contributing factors to happiness are many, but I feel one of the most important factors in building a happy relationship between individuals, as well as nations, is human communication. It is amazing how many of us just "can't get through", even to those we love, those we live with every day - children to their parents, husbands to their wives, our associates in business. We have problems, frictions that we are dying to talk over with them, but we can't get through.
It's incredible that a father should not be able to sit down and talk to his teenage boy about anything under the sun, or that a wife should not be able to bare her soul to her husband, or that partners in business should not share the troubles of each other just as they share the advice, and this help and advice should come from those we love and those who love us, and yet so many of us are, as we say, "afraid to mention it". And so walls build up. They become higher and higher, and soon they are insurmountable. If we cannot communicate at a personal level, how can we ever communicate at an international level? How often have you heard someone say… "If only I had known… if only he had told me”… familiar phrases that usually follow some tragic event. How do you communicate? Well it's not hard. Just give it a try. No matter how delicate your problem, no matter what the emotions or feelings involved, sit down, talk it out, and I'm sure after it's over, you’ll find it was not too difficult at all. We are all human. We are all at times blind, and we all at times need help. So if you have a problem, don't isolate - communicate with those who love you and want to help you.
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