My Relationship to Language

My relationship to language is one that is influenced by my writing and books that I have read. I like to write a lot of poetry and ryhmes that reflects some things that I have read and everyday communication with people. I like to read, but I know that to expand my knowledge base and to improve my communication I need to read a lot more, because it will nurture my ideas and how I articulate them to others. I would like to improve my relationship with language by speaking with more confidence and conviction. I would like to know how I can get all of my thoughts out in the open without second guesses, and be able to use less filler words in my sentences that act as crutches to language(like, you know, umm). Language is innovative and ever-changing to me and it acts as a code that defines culture and ethnicity. Language is one channel of communication that isn't just speech. We are speaking a language all the time through our body language, verbally and non-verbally. Body language is just as powerful as speech because it defies what we think. Language is so many things and I look forward to pushing myself to be able to communicate in a way that can be translated and understood through every channel.