Coming from a middle-class family, there are so many things I want to achieve in life. Aside from the physical and security needs, my drive to work and earn isn’t solely compelled by them.
As people’s disposable income increases, some want to buy all the things they think they need. And from the perspective of I want to be like them, I begin to wonder why we want to have what everybody has. And is it okay to want what everybody has?
What is the boundary between needs and wants?
From How to know what you really want:
Desire (as opposed to need) is an intellectual appetite for things that you perceive to be good, but that you have no physical, instinctual basis for wanting – and that’s true whether those things are actually good or not.
Can you remember Maslow’s Heirarchy of Needs?
Even if wants and needs seem to blur these days, there is still a distinct difference between them.
From How to know what you really want:
It’s easy to become obsessively focused on what your neighbours have or want, rather than on your immediate responsibilities and relationship commitments. We humans are social creatures who know others so that we can also know ourselves, and that’s a good thing – but, if we’re not careful, we can become excessively concerned with others.
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