Why do we greet/wish on special occasion?
We always wish on every special occasion be it a birthday or festival or new year. Of course, those wishes are not gonna come true just because of our wishes. It doesn't mean we should not to wish at all. But there must a motive or purpose behind our wish. Newspapers and channels wish people and that's a promotion strategy. Celebrities wish because they have otherwise media portrays them as non-social species. A boy uses it to as an opening sentence to talk to a girl. A girl too sometimes does vice versa. We all wish people around us because we don't want them to think of us as a non-social person. We people wish to tell the world about our existence. Primary purpose/motive/use of greeting is marketing oneself and all other greetings are just crap and don't take them personally. A motiveless greeting is nothing but a piece of crap. Bottle line: Don't wish without a motive behind it. Motive inversely proportional to a piece of crap. Finally, I wish a very happy ...