Everyone that I know (well sort of) went to watch "the young kid with the hat and the stick." I am talking about Harry Potter's new movie, I even don't know the name of this new flick, but apparantly it's already a big hit.
Everyone had different reasons, my group went because everyone is die hard HP fan, few even purchased books. Another group of friends went together because they thought it would be nice to see it with everyone else. My professor was going because his wife wanted to watch it. I am sure there are trillion more reasons why people watched the movie.
My point here is why do we do things, the way we do it? Can we put a singular reason behind our actions? Can there be such thing as objectivity of thought? Can we love ourselves above everything else? Can we like something/somebody else because reasons of our own?
Can we do something (even for someone else) because it is not our duty but for reasons, principles and standards of our own? Human being are societal/social animal. I have no study of psychology but I think few things are important for a human being to survive in healthy (physically and mentally) manner.
As I said humans like to live in herds, sense of belonging is important. It is achieved through various ways: religion is one the most common one; clubs, clothing, language (dialects) are few others.
Second motivation that I can think of is validation. We feel the need to be validated from time to time for our actions.
(damn it friend called, lost train of thought)

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