People include you and me imitate others. Even if we try hard to remain without doing so, we can't. We do imitate knowingly or unknowingly many things from others. For example, we imitate our neighbors in keeping our status in the neighborhood.
Imitation is a part of our culture. Inseparable. Ir repairable and Innateness in nature. The very life revolves around this weakness of ours.
Kids imitate parents. School children imitate their class mates. Women imitate glamor gals. Men imitate celebrities. Baby boomers imitate other baby boomers.
Poets imitate other poets. Writers imitate other writers. Critics imitate other critics by criticizing all and everything. The very life is imitation.
Only a thrid person can identify whether a person is imitating another person or not. The one who imitating another seldom knows that he or she is unknowingly imitating someone.
Even in communication also we do imitate others. Look at Arts, Painting, Music, Drama, Film and TV or any other communication media. Imitation is resplendent in communication. Obviously it remains hidden under the surface. But in depth there it looms before you like an iceberg. What you have seen above the surface is only its tip.
Why communication always imitate?
Communication is a natural function that is evolving by itself. Anything that is self-generated cannot stand by itself. Hence communication also cannot stand on its own. It needs a support. And the support comes in some "form": writing, music, painting and the like. Can you imagine any communication without a definite form?
Every one imitates some form of communication from others who did it before. Imitation is suicidal in communication, because it will not last long. Such imitations in communications, let it be in any form, would never contribute to our refined culture. Communication is after all the net result of refined culture.
It takes ingenuity to be "original". Not talent. Originality is sometimes termed creativity. Both these terms are reciprocal in effect. Imitation kills originality. Ingenuity fosters creativity, inspiration and motivation.
So the core functions of any communication are to inspire, inform and motivate. If imitation seeps into it, the basic purpose of communication is not met.
It is better to remain bold in communicating with others. Be genuine and honest to yourself. communicating that way makes you a star, if not a Sun.
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