Why do we communicate? My theory is that there are subliminal messages we want to send when we say something/wear something/do something. They could be the following-
1. I need you/I don't need you
2. I want to be noticed.
3. Tell me how smart/beautiful I am.
4. The world should be more like me.
5. The world does not understand my greatness/smartness/wisdom/competence etc...
6. My kameez is whiter than yours- brilliant ad which used it well. Don't understand why everyone in washing ads only wears white though.
7. I own this brand/I shop here/I eat at xyz restaurant. Therefore, I am ....
8. Women don't understand what men want...or its more popular version, men don't understand, period! (which may or may not be true)
9. Like me..(not subliminal any more after Facebook invented the option to 'Like' anything and everything).
10. You don't love me...made popular by Western soap operas in which every other sentence is a reaffirmation of a false premise.
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Oops just saw this list after I posted one on the 'like' concept on fb. But I 'like' this list. Thought provoking. I don't think we'd communicate at all if there was no need to draw attention to ourselves. The monks figured it out.
great minds think a'like', I guess!
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