Like, give or receive, is the quintessence of life. Life can only be reduced to fighting if you don’t like it or they don’t like you; Of course, such a situation is rare in most lives lived in this pleasant land. In the beginning, that is, when you are born, it is uncertain whether you like being born or before being conceived in the womb; the situation becomes more murky because most babies cry after birth and it is considered a healthy sign. Therefore, we will skip the very beginning of our life when, in any case, we do not know why that ‘I’ enters a particular womb through a particular external source in the midst of billions and is born in a particular family in a particular place. on our sympathetic land, and focus mainly on the ‘likes’ generated continuously throughout our conscious life and why we always like to like them.
We start to like our parents, particularly mom, our food, our relatives, our friends, our teachers, our gender-specific entities, our bosses, various objects ranging from gadgets to books, schools, universities, jobs, etc. we emanate from all those sources; because, our hobbies always generate a positive ‘feel good’ factor that keeps us kicking with life. Therefore, in this probably ‘likeable’ piece of writing we will focus on why we like it tremendously when we like other humans, animals, or pets. We will keep ourselves completely safe from any kind of ‘disgusting’ factors lurking around every ‘nice’ corner; namely; we don’t like that we don’t like that.
At a very young age we feel energized when mom smiles sweetly at us and encourages us to take the first steps in life, and we burst into endless laughter that makes the art of walking easier. When a parent likes our handwritten alphabets, we feel so happy that we start to make more efforts to produce more beautiful letters. Our mom looks divine when we don’t worry about food and start eating healthy snacks, and she makes us so happy that we make a promise to always make her happy. When our classroom teacher smiles at our homework and says that she likes it, this very act makes us a harder student. When our friends like our birthday gifts or other gifts, we become best friends. On the playground, as some of us show off our unique expertise or intelligence, our spirit of teamwork gets a boost.
In the other, more mature stages of life, the voluminous ‘getting to like’ story becomes more elaborate, productive, and infectious, a bit too much for this writer’s comfort, and thus we will mention only a few significant situations. The examiner likes your answers, the teacher announces, in the middle of a strong tension, the grades obtained, and if you get the highest or very good grades you are enthralled and grateful; if you happen to exchange glances with members of the opposite sex, and those glances turn into smiles or conversations, you get an adrenaline rush, and teasing from your friends makes it even more enjoyable, of course, sometimes a like is turns into “love”. ‘ which, however, is not included in this presentation; a faceless examiner somewhere gives you good marks on your answer paper for a job, you get a call for an interview, the interviewers like your personality and you get the job, and this makes you the happiest person ever ; you are supposed to like your spouse immensely, and if the spouse ‘likes’ or ‘loves’ you back, you find your life worth living; when your boss likes your jobs and recommends a promotion, you are in seventh heaven with insatiable energy and in the consequent family life of being a father, being an uncle, being a father-in-law, being a grandfather, etc. in an expansive series of ‘likes’ are generated that keep you happy and content. There could be many other situations where your creative contributions are appreciated and you become famous, through a delightful network of likes. Then, of course, there are the festivals, parties, gatherings, family gatherings, and the like where the likes generated are huge and deliciously contagious.
This ‘probably nice’ piece would be incomplete if we excluded from our field the social networks of today’s digital world. Well, on social media there is fierce competition to generate and devour ‘likes’. If your post gets less than double digits of likes, you usually won’t feel dissatisfied, but will try better posts; more than ten likes will make you considerably happy and if you reach a century of likes it will charge you and “viral” is the last word for your unlimited happiness generated by likes. However, there are certain unwritten rules to perform well on social media: You will have to be hyperactive on an ongoing basis, and you will have to be highly liked by others to generate likes for yourself. Thus, an opinion of social networks arises: I like and like.
We have clearly seen how a like makes us happy at every stage of our life, and it is the best thing that God has given us. We haven’t mentioned the word ‘appreciation’ which is also the best possible expression of positivity, because appreciation usually follows a like, in most situations. So we can expect to have a species of ‘like-minded’ humans who can only be a good development on this suffering planet earth. There is also no harm in generalizing the opinion that is developed in social networks. I like and like. Guaranteed happiness.
