Emotional utility
I've just joined the corporate world this week which explains the lack of updates. This is probably a back-dated blog. My sis' wedding was last Saturday... it was beautiful - the flowers, the church, candles, the gown & of course my sister!! She was stunning :)So one of the things that my bro-in-law was saying was that he never understood women & their love for flowers, pretty shoes that hurt their feet (like trying to fit that fat feet into the pointy tip shoes) , wedding cakes, chocolates etc. U get the drift. I explained that it's this "emotional utility" thing... u just get a lot of "happiness" out of it - like choosing the perfect wedding cake with icy-white icing & carved lilies with tints of yellow on them. And most importantly, as guys, u don't have to understand, just know about it. :) That's why it's relatively easy to cheer a woman up. Like the beautiful surprise bouquet of red roses that was delivered for a belated V-day ;) .
And the most touching thing my bro-in-law concluded was "I'm happy as long as she's happy". Awwww.. ;)
posted by emeryz @ 4:39 AM
2 Comments:
i suspect that it is not the 'material' things whether it be roses or chocolate that makes a girl happy. Of course chocolates are delicious and roses are pretty but beyond their apparent utility, isn't it the fact that someone has actually thought of her and gone to the trouble to get her something which is the real source of her joy?
As for shoes, let me share an experience of mine from a 'distant life' where I actually worked in a unisex shoe shop. When customers ask to try shoes on and I ask them what shoe size they wear; men inevitably inflate (exaggerate) their shoe size [think you've heard of the myth of a man's feet size is a reflection of the size of another part of their anatomy] while women tend to ask for a size much smaller than their 'real' size. So does that say something about how they 'wish' to be? *grin*
That's an interesting viewpoint on things. But flowers and chocolates do make girls happier as compared to giving her a fridge or thumb drive. ;)
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