How good are you at differentiating what you need from what you want? Anyone
who's ever had to deal with disappointments in life knows there's a difference.
We all want a lot of things and we all need a lot. Just how do you decide which
is best for you. You can easily say you as a person (grown or otherwise) know
what you want, but very rarely do we know what we need.
Have you ever had something go wrong but meant that you got something you
actually needed? Does missing the bus and have to walk meant that you met an
old friend who presents you with an opportunity that ends you being what you
need. Maybe getting dumped and going on holiday alone, lead you to a place
where so many opportunities awaited you?
We all have an ideal, a picture in our head that we are trying to replicate
in real life. We go through so much to make that picture whole. Work 9-5 jobs,
put money in our pension pot, have savings, start college funds for our kids
and so on. However sometimes, regardless of how hard we try, we just never seem
to be able to portray the exact same picture.
You would expect this would mean the final drawing would come out skewed; I mean
if things haven’t gone the way you planned, surely the end point will be completely
different from what you envisioned. And life would cease to be what you know it
to be. Only that doesn’t seem to be the case, in spite of getting something different
from what we expected, we end up getting what we needed. In comparing our ideal
to what life has presented us, we end up at exactly where we needed to be.
At what point do we stop striving for what we want and start aiming for what
we need. When through all of this do we stop drawing our ideal picture and
start drawing a realistic one? Can you tell the difference between what you
want and what you need? Do you know what you need? Is it different from what
you want? Are you striving for what you what or what you need?
I personally find, that sometimes I can answer this question with confidence
and other times I’m confused as to which is which.
Well said Blogger !!
ReplyDeleteTruthfully, human beings need four things to survive , a roof over our heads , food and water to maintain our health , basic health care and clothing ..What you need to remain comfortable and appropriately dressed. Anything that goes beyond that , a new car , big house , designer clothes etc are all wants..That however presents a question . Do you need to buy only the things you need ?? Big NO !!
Life is meant to be lived, not survived. Treat yourself to some wants along the way, but do so when you can afford to, and enjoy those wants as the extras that they are.
.....EM...