To tease is to want

A friend of mine recently said to me "To tease is to want".... I really didn't pay much attention to the statement at first, but it kept coming back into my mind. I started teasing, if you may, the meaning behind it, and it made me realize that it's true. To tease is to want, many things, such as to tease is to want attention, the attention of others, male and female, acknowledge me, maybe. To tease is to want attraction, look at me, am I the one, try me. To tease is to want connection, in this world of less interaction physically, we seek connection outside our norms, texting has become common,  no more calls with sounds, just written words, but still connection. To tease is to want affection, that is what it is, we are all seeking emotions of affirmation, whether to just make ourselves feel something be it good or bad, we so desire affection from others. To tease is to want, yeah, the list goes on....... Over the past few years I have become more of a person without a filter, and I say and do things without sometimes, really thinking them through. I have become an advertisement if I may say, advertisement of myself. See the act of  teasing is done with simple words, with my actions, and with photos, seems to have become a comfortable norm. I think I'm not alone in doing this, I see others, everywhere. Social media has opened a lot of people up to that. We have become our own commercials. We put ourselves out there to masses in order to bring in the right customers. Although we are not selling a product, per say, we are selling something of ourselves. Yes, selling something. The picture of a cup of coffee a smile, may be just our attempt to share a moment in time, or is it our draw for likes? We are purely, sometimes, just looking for our friends, acquaintances, and maybe lovers approval. Their responses to whatever our need is at the moment the commercial was made. The right customers to fill that void, a need, a purpose. So we put up a picture, selfies and life shots. We put up a meme to announce "look at me" to shout "listen to me" or simply "pay attention to me". We type out to the world comments of our days events, our thoughts, our selling points to bring in the comments or just to get them out of our heads, like I do often. So that little phrase, to tease is to want, means a lot. Has made me think about what I do want in my life, what I do want to attract, and what I do need. That phrase, to tease is to want, has made me think of how I should be presenting myself, what I should post, what I should say, just a little....... First, I acknowledge that I am far from perfect, and gratefully never will be. However, I know that I can improve on what I do, how I do it, and who I do it for. I do things from myself, mostly, that is true, but I should be more mindful of who I affect beyond me. Who do I affect with my actions? I affect maybe my children, my co-workers, my dear friends, and in the future my love. For we all don't just post positive, we post negatives, hurtful things, and sometimes very questionable things. These things can always come back and haunt you, especially now that we are putting it all out there for the masses. To tease is to want, yep, and that want has gotten bigger and less fulfilled........This friend of mine has me thinking, and that's a good thing.