Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is an English word in the song from the musical film Mary Poppins.
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is a village somewhere in Wales. (How the hell do you even pronounce that? Lan-fair-pill-will-gill-lill-kill-bleeeh.....Gah, forget it.)
Interpersonal communication is somthing most of us come across each and everyday. Most of the time. When we talk to our friends; when we talk to our family; when we talk to people; when we talk to our dogs! (Just kidding!) The point is, interpersonal communication is something that happens everyday in our life, it's something that we humans need so that we are able to socialize with humans and lead an active social life.
In my opinion, interpersonal communication between humans aren't something that you can create in a second or a day. The forming or friendships and the trust between the two friends requires time and communication between both parties. Without communication, we can't understand one another and therefore we won't be able to get through to one another. Take for example, would you be closer to a cousin whom you see every week or a relative that you have never seen before? (I myself have had this experience countless times, especially during Chinese New Year's celebrations, when relatives from all sides come and celebrate this festive season. My dad's brothers and sisters, my mom's brothers and sisters, my mom's cousins, my dad cousins, my grandfather's brothers and sisters, my grandfather's brothers and sisters' kids, my grandfather's brothers and sisters' kids' kids......the list goes on and on. I only seem to know a mere fraction of the relatives who're present at the celebrations and dinners. Most of us would rather be engrossed with our handphones and music players rather than talking with cousins, myself being an example, as my cousins and relatives are more fluent in Chinese and not being so fluent in English, whereas I'm more fluent in English rather than Chinese, therefore creating that language barrier where we would rather stick to ourselves than go through all that trouble of communicating with someone who doesn't communicate in our preferred language.)
Interpersonal communication between friends are normally built through the time which we spend with each other in school, when we hang out with each other, through sms-es and phone calls, through internet chatting and through shared interests. Take your best friend for example, I'm sure it took some time before you and your best friends actually reached that status of being best friends. Best friends have a sense of trust and strong believe in one another and they would count on each other without hesitation and they know that they will have someone to count on when they are overcome with problems or they need someone to listen to them. I think that the friends we make during high school and primary school lasts longer than those that we make later on in life when we're working or when we're studying in university. Why is that so? Mainly because friends that we make during school days know us earlier and they know our true characteristics of how we were like before we actually matured and developed that hard shell outside the kiddy behaviour that each of us posses. They are the ones that know our true nature and characteristics, and yet they won't shun us for who we are because they are able to tolerate us after through all the years and time that we've spent together. They would put up with us when we're grumpy, or when we're down and need a shoulder to lie on, or when we get hyper and go over the moon and decide to pull them along for the fun. These friends are the friends that we should treasure for a lifetime as it isn't easy to find a friend no matter how popular one is.
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