krRrrreEeenng!

It was a little cold last night, I was sitting on one of the corners of the veranda. The stars were all at glow and it seemed like they were happy, as well as the moon which was kinda picturesque. I was unconsciously closing my eyes, laid back and my mind was about to float in the land of dreams when a ring suddenly disturbed my forlorn and dozy soul. A big “Hello! And a happy new year!” greeted me. A long time high school friend called me. She missed me (daw) that’s why she called me. On that 3-hour call, we exchanged stories, experiences, information, ‘chismis’ and babble much about how our lives have been. But behind those, I’ve realized that there really had been a lot of changes since we graduated from high school—she reduced a lot of weight, found a new boyfriend, messed up with some guys, had new set of friends and so, so much. Her story about her boyfriend just tickles my mind. She told me they just had a fight about some days ago because she hoaxed him that she was actually a lesbian, that’s why she’d often go with her best friend than go out with him. Her boyfriend’s immediate reaction was to get shocked and told her he’d do everything to send her to a psychologist just to bring back the femininity in her. We both laughed and ribbed at him. Anyhow, because of that call, I felt even though we can’t communicate as often as we wanted, at least we still do and although there had been a lot of changes, the comfort and closeness somehow wasn’t affected. (or I just thought so).

>>The situation above depicts a dyadic interpersonal communication, which makes use of a phone as a channel. Social Penetration theory can be applied on this situation because after some time, they re-opened again the intimacy like before. On the other hand, we can also apply the theory entitled Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) because it realistically suggests that all of us use communication to coordinate our actions with the behavior of others to make sense of the interaction. Although, the speakers don’t see each other, through their conversation they were able to catch up on each other’s lives and were rebuild social realities.