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Dear human communication in society,

I am writing this letter to address a personal communication problem that I have. I noticed this problem when I had an issue with my younger sister, who had refused to go back to her boarding school, to continue with her elementary level of education. All these issues emerged, just because I was not a critical thinker. The moment she told me that she did not want to go back to school, I immediately concluded that she had started being indiscipline. My negative attitude towards her decision made me insist that she should go back to school or I’ll take her by force. Despite her efforts to resist my decision, she ended up going back to school due to her fear of the kind of punishment that I was threatening to give her.

At one point my heart was shaken, when she bid me bye while crying, though I did not pay much attention. During the vacation, she came home with fair results, though she had dropped compared to the previous vacation. I quarreled her thinking that it was indiscipline that made her drop in class performance. I could always notice the difference between her moods when she coming home for vacation and when she was going back to school. That is, she was always happy when coming home and sad when going back. Her results continued to deteriorate whenever they did an exam. This was a person who used to be the best in class, no matter how the other students performed poorly. She was someone I had built hope in. When her performance become worse her teacher decided to summon my parents and I decided to represent them. We tried to talk her but she remained sad and it was like we were not helping her.

I came home and advised my parent to reconsider her opinion of changing the school for her. On changing the school, my sister regained her normal moods of happiness and always having stories to tell. Her performance improved tremendously and she regained her position of being the best student always. One day, as we were having free chats with her, she narrated to me her ordeal situations in her former school. The way she used to have stomach problems, due to the kind of food in that school and the nurse used to ignore her, saying that she was pretending. The matron used to harass her for using the toilets most of the time, especially at night.

The evidence for not critically looking at my sister’s opinion can be seen clearly from how I insisted that she goes back to her school. The consequences of considering my idea correct and looking at my sister’s opinion negatively, without asking myself what other reasons could have made my sister to decide so. If I was a critical thinker I should have noticed the changes in the normal behavior of my sister and therefore link them to her request to be taken to a new school. The moment she cried while saying bye to me, should have made me widen my thinking and try to find out the reason behind. Failure to do all this is an indication that I am not a critical thinker.

It is more important that I was able to resolve the issue though after my sister going through tough situation. To resolve this personal communication issue I have been trying to consider every situation from a critical point of view. I have been trying to think critically by looking at every action with a broader mind, in order to make conclusions that cover almost all variables. I would like the class to help me on how to better my critical thinking.