I Wonder by Chantel Freed

What if I gave you the option that from this point forward you could only write or talk but not both. What would be your choice of communication? Some of us are talkers and some of us are writers. Can we effectively do both with the exact same data?

Perhaps, if you are a writer you may feel that the written word has a stronger impact or a more lasting one compared to the verbal. However, if you are a talker the human interaction plays a heavier part to connect you with that one – or many – while listening, watching, and talking. I recently did some research on H.C Anderson and his writings, such as "The Wild Swans." His work for the most part can come across very delight and playful, while still carrying a strong meaning of wanting to have acceptance.

I would love to have had the opportunity to hear him, and for him take me on the adventure and flight of The Wild Swans as a storyteller.

I write this blog today to make you wonder.

About some of the choices, we ponder.

Which words will intensify the breathtaking thunder?

While others can enchant hearts to look at you fonder.

Oh, which ones I wonder...

Comments

[Elizabeth Wunsch]

It is interesting to discover the choice the Irish made when they actually were able to have a choice of how to save their stories. Lovely poem!

[Genevieve]

How glad I am that we can both talk and write. I love the intimacy when we sit together, trading thoughts and feelings back and forth. Yet I also love the space to ponder, to allow time for "words to intensify the breathtaking thunder." Thank you for these words and thoughts.

[Kathy E]

This is a great post. I though your discussion about communication and how we choose to engage with others was a great insight. And like Liz - lovely poem!

[Myranette Robinson]

Oh what a great piece to think about. I hope we never are in a situation where we have to choose. If I chose writing, I would miss such works such as The Wind in the Willows. I chose talking I would miss hearing the great stories being told by my classmates and others. You post let me cherish communication of all types.

[Marilee Lasch]

I teach a group based on the book THE ARTISTS WAY and part of the process is to write in a journal three pages every morning.It is always a challenge for me, as I am a talker, and find that even as I'm writing I'm thinking my thoughts out loud LOL. But when I am reading my mind and mouth get quiet, so I would really miss someone else's writing.

[Crystal Gale]

I too often wonder what it would be like to listen to someone tell stories who wrote such lovely words. I think I would like to hear Rudyard Kipling. Thank-you for the thoughts that are provoking more thoughts.