Communication The gift of knowing and being known. Making use of a resource of words, phrases, and expression to express thoughts, feelings, and ideas to create a world between individuals. There is nothing quite like the unparalleled frustration of being misunderstood. At the center of the most tragic love stories is a simple misunderstanding. The meaning of word or action perceived as something else. And suddenly everything is seen through the lens of a misunderstood truth, to the point of the destruction of a friendship, of love and possibility. How many of us lay victim to such a tragedy...? To find oneself in a land where your native tongue means little creates a new world of being unknown. Your skill for communicating is weakened and made meaningless. Suddenly words are no longer adequate and meaning is lost in translation. Being misunderstood has never been so understood. To write these words and know that for some in my new world, these mean very little, if