Earlier in the chapter, I made an annotation on the point made that interpersonal communication is more goal-oriented than intrapersonal communication. However, I would like to challenge that thought. In every discipline of life, nobody is ever perfect. If we were all perfect, there would be no meaning to trying and striving forward. So, when we mess up, we set up goals for ourselves intrapersonally to help us grow in the areas we recognize we need growth. Thus, it can be noted that intrapersonal communication could very well be just as or more goal-oriented than interpersonal communication.

Humans are relational beings. We are capable of feeling complex emotions like love, and we spend time with loved ones and friends to communicate such emotions with them. We have many aspects of our lives in which we depend upon communication and relationships to survive. When these relationships are stripped away from us, it can severely damage any communication skills we have acquired, not to mention the emotional struggle loneliness can put a person through.

Physical context does indeed play a massive role in communication. I have gone through a handful of interviews, and I have had very diverse experiences. I have had an interview at a table in a crowded restaurant, one in a quiet enclosed room, but most recently, I had my first online interview. Online interviewing was a completely different ballpark from what I was used to. Not being able to see their physical self in front of me caught me off guard, and so did the slow internet speed with lag that followed it. The physical changes led to adaptations in my communication style that I was not prepared to make.

Earlier in the text, it mentioned how the ability to talk in humans had an evolutionary advantage, which is due to the goal-oriented nature of interpersonal communication. Communication can transform the goals of one individual into a united goal for many. One's intrapersonal goals and communication can only be shared with the individual. Interpersonal communication is the driving factor of society; without it, we may have never been able to create the society we have today.

I think this draws a fairly interesting comparison to the evolution of communication today. For years, our conversation, vocabulary, and dialect have evolved far past anything our prehistoric ancestors could've imagined. But now, to communicate certain ideas, we use words like drip, cap, and fire to convey different ideas than the word suggests. Similar to the onomatopoetic nature of the first words spoken, we have shortened our language in areas and introduced new meanings to words already created to communicate how we best see fit.