What you Want VS. what you Need

The difference between a want and a need is simple. In a dictionary the verb “Need” is defined as something you have to have. In contrary of the verb “Want” who means something you would like to have. I condone that a person can get along without a want, but a need is what’s necessary and must have to feel and be fulfilled. Since the creation of Human kind, man started searching for basic needs that could keep them alive like: « A shelter », « Enough food and water to maintain your health », «good health»… Want didn’t even exist at that time because it was already hard to get what they need.

In 2012 need and want have junctured the same meaning. It’s impossible for a 21 first century person to identify what they want from what they really need. In my offence we are not reprehensible of that because let’s remember the world isn’t a static place, with every sun rise we welcome something new. Since the advanced world of high technology and mind blowing electronics have been introduced in our lives in the past century nothing stays uniform. Who doesn’t want an Ipad4 or a blackberry or a flat screen TV or a Prada bad or Christian Louboutin’s latest shoe or any of these things? But let’s face it do we really need all that? It is not absolutely necessary, but it would be a good thing to have.

People should start considering that there’s a prodigious difference between want and need. It’s about time that we start being indifferent of what we own. Showing off won’t get us anywhere in our lives because life goes on and every single day something new shows up. Our needs have to come first. But this does not mean never reward yourself with something you want every once in a while.