i’ve been reflecting on this for a few years. i will most likely not close the door on the topic either.
what are needs and wants? are they the same thing? sustenance, water, and oxygen are needs. “maslow’s hierarchy of needs” is a good starting point. what about wants? are they healthy? are they unhealthy? are they the same?
i claim that needs and wants can overlap. sustenance and a doule-bacon cheeseburger. while one can be considered essential and the other excessive, they both meet the need of filling an empty belly.
in recent years i have be weighing healthy and unhealthy. can a need be unhealthy? can a want be healthy? and vice versa.
i am reminded of “the monkey’s paw”. the consequences of meeting wants or getting what you want. for every action there is a reaction. i’m sure i am echoing that phrase in error. what i am saying is, the energy you receive leaves a pocket of energy for a duration. the trasnfered energy needs to acquire balance from another source. and in the story “the monkey’s paw”, that transfer is represented in tragedy.
one of the theories in the world is energy never ceases. a reason why i think balance is part of the whole transfer of energy. to gain, you either lose something or the energy required to balance is removed from something or someone else.
meeting or acquring a want or need consumes energy. i’m just going to put a pin in this. back to wants and needs.
i think what i am exploring is that wants and needs can help you or not help you. you or someone else will be impacted in a postive or negative way according to the flavour of the want or need being met and or the actions and decisions associated.
for the moment, i will stop here. i may explore this topic further in another post. i share without a script with minimal proof reading, pretty much what you see here was typed within the an hour of publishing.