Everyone needs to communicate with others in his life.Students and professors,parents and children,employers and employees,friends,strangers,and enemies all communicate.We have been communicating with others from the first weeks of life and will keep on doing so until we die.
Interpersonal communication is very important to us.First,it is essential for our physical well-being.Lack of communication shows a wide range of medical hazards.Socially isolated people are found to be two or three times more likely to suffer from poor health than are those with strong social ties.Steady interpersonal communication contributes to the longevity of our lives.Second,interpersonal communication enables us to have a sense of our identity.Deprived of communication with others,we can hardly have a clear idea of identity.Our sense of identity comes from the way we interact with other people.We decide what we are like based on how others react to us.In our life we need to feel a sense of belonging to some personal relationship.We need to influence others and feel some sense of power over our world.We need to care for others and know that they care for us,thus to have a sense of affection and friendship.Fourth,interpersonal communication is the means of important information in every respect,which makes us well informed and helps us to grow.
To sum up,interpersonal communication is just as necessary as water and air to us in our work and life.We should pay great attention to the amount of interpersonal communication as well as to the ways of doing it.Proper and skillful interpersonal communication will satisfy our physical needs,psychological needs,social needs and practical needs.