What are you trying to pull?

Ads are everywhere. I never noticed how many ads there are or the huge variety of ads that surround us everyday. If you walk down the halls of UVU you will find yourself bombarded by ads to join the army or to study abroad or even to go see a volleyball game. I didn't really associate these types literature (if I can call it that) as advertisement but I see now that nearly everything we come into contact with is trying to sell us something, get us to act in a certain way or do a specific thing. As I was flipping through the channels the other day I began to notice it in shows not just the commercials between them. American next top model was advertising for Wal-mart and some makeup company. A survival show was advertising a camping supply company and the list goes on. It makes me curious to see how long you or I could go without running into an ad of some sort. could you go a minute? Maybe you could go two, but eventually you are going to have to open your eyes again and when you do there will most likely be an ad in front of you or at least in you vicinity. This being said I don't particularly mind it all that much. I recently returned from an LDS mission and while I was gone I did not watch any TV or listen to the radio. So needless to say I didn't run into much advertisement. don't get me wrong I ran a good amount still, whether that be through billboards or in stores or wherever. Here is my point, I missed knowing what new things were coming out, what movies were new and well a lot of other news as well. So yeah we are bombarded, but hey I wouldn't have it any other way.