Well, I’ll be honest, I’m not really sure where to start this blog post but we’ll see what happens. I have not been very good about posting these; in fact, I have missed the past 2 or 3 of them. However, better late than never so I’ll talk about what I discovered over spring break.
I remember during our presentation of small group communication we went over the different comfort zones that you have when you are talking to different people. For example, you may be comfortable talking in a very short distance with your very close family or even friends. Over spring break I helped put together a party for my brother’s 23’rd birthday and I noticed that the comfort zones were really happening. I watched as different family members stood at varying distances from each other, based mostly on how long they had been a part of the family. A situation where two family members were standing far apart was when my non-blood related uncles, one of whom only married my aunt a year ago, stood a fair distance away actually having to lean in to shake hands. I then watched as the Aunt I grew up closest with came and sat so close to my brother that their shoulders were constantly in contact and neither of them seemed in the least bit fazed. I just thought that it was really interesting to see the different distances that people stood from each other and from myself.
John Heritage
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