Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood

People are misunderstood all throughout our world. We have all been misunderstood one way or another. The purpose of my choice to explore why people are misunderstood is that I want to find the root cause of why people are misunderstood and to discover ways to begin to understand others. Wrong accusations, invariable judging, and even death are the effect of being misunderstood and the world would be a better place if the human race began to understand each other.

To find my information, I used my old “Choosing Health” textbook from my Health Concept and Strategies class I took last year at Palm Beach State College. The “Relationships and Communication” section provided a lot of information about how to use communication to help relationships. I also read “The Green Mile.” This book is a prime example of somebody being misunderstood. John Coffey, the main character, is a big and broad African American man who is wrongly accused of killing twin girls and has to suffer the consequence of a death penalty. I learned about Criss Jami, the lead singer of Venus in Arms, who studied philosophy in college and read his unique and intellectual writing. He has written many books that contain countless insightful thoughts. I also read some of Richard Bach’s simple yet meaningful lines in his book “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”, a book whose theme is that we should all strive to reach our vastest goals and break from the boundaries that limit us. Lastly, I researched what other people thought it took to be understood and how to better understand by others.

We, as human beings, continuously perceive our thoughts and opinions to be the correct ones. Humans have a self-importance that raises themselves up onto a higher par than the people around t...

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...t was essentially my fault. I know how to rekindle my relationships with others now and fights and misunderstandings are going to start occurring less often for me. A new question that came to me is how many battles and how much damage to the world could have been avoided if humans were solely able to communicate more effectively. The answer may be countless but it would be very interesting to see which major scenarios have occurred based on a simple misunderstanding.

Works Cited

"4 Reasons Humans Will Never Understand Each Other." Cracked.com. Web. 13 Mar. 2014.

“Chris Jamie Quotes.” Goodreads.com Web. 13 Mar. 2014

Lynch, April, Barry Elmore, and Tanya Morgan. Choosing Health. Boston: Benjamin Cummings, 2012. Print.

The Green Mile. Dir. Frank Darabont. Prod. Frank Darabont. By Frank Darabont. Perf. Tom Hanks, David Morse, and Bonnie Hunt. Warner Bros., 1999.