Panadol Ads

Recently the panadol's ads capture my attention.

It's not spectacular, it's not bad either, but it's somehow interesting, the meaning behind the gestures.

First look I just smile. It shows a man tells a woman that he knows what she is feeling right now when she sneezes on and on. The woman have a terrible flu. A bus passing by and show the panadol for cold ads poster. The next scene is predictable, the woman, who is fully recovered and of course by taking panadol cold, tells another man that she knows what he is feeling right now. The man denied it by saying, "no, you are not!".

How many times that we are acting like the man, denying others that they know what we are feeling right now?

Most of the time, when we feels sad, laments, or regrets we often denying other that they knows how it feels. Most of the time we bragged that we are hurt, we are in pain, in terrible pain that other won't know how painful it is.

It's normal human reaction after all.

But the ads gives an insight in how arrogant we are sometimes, to believe that we are in so much pain that others won't know how it feels.

When we lost our parents, others probably have experienced it too.
When we lost our loved ones, others probably have experienced it too.
When we lost something precious, others probably have experienced it too.

The question is when we are going to listen to others and start taking the pills.