Hierarchy Of Your Needs!

As a human being, we are tempted to give in to each and every temptation and fad that we might see. But as a human with bare necessities, what would you prefer more - food or love?

This brings us to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a pyramid that tells us how complex human emotions and needs are, however our basic desires are much common. This is a psychological idea based on our innate curiosities.

The very first are our Physiological needs including basic necessities of survival like food, water, warmth, rest and sleep. Which I find is rather true, because if a person is hungry, he would not refrain from thieving, as the lines of morality blur on absence of physiological needs. There are so many humans on Earth that have to struggle for these basic requirements, ans when these are not fulfilled, our first urge is to fight and find these. Luxury is not even required during absence of these, it is a far fetched dream.

Once these are fulfilled, and I believe all those who are priviledged enough to read these words on a screen are so, the next step is for a human to find safety needs. Safety needs include security which can be in the form of financial stability, a house, emotional stability and safety in the society. We find that prejudices had and still make people in lack of safety needs. Needs unfulfilled at any level take a toll on a person's sanity and morality. It is true the world has crime, but it is also true that the world has an utter lack of safety. These things go hand in hand.

The next is belongingness and love needs, which I feel is what majority of us lack. We find depression running amock in our lives and insecurities create a wall around us all the time. Anxiety and stress levels have increased significantly over the past decades and we are, as of now, in a world with deteriorating mental health.

The second last step of the human needs is esteem needs. We have to satisfy our egos, we need to feel entitlement to things even though we rather have no role in making those things come true. We want accomplishments and we want them when the world sees us. We would rather be known mediocres than unsung heroes. We need to feel prestige and we want to go great lengths for it. These become the most fundamental once we know we live in a society. These are shackles we put on us, that we now yearn to break free from.

The very last step, to which only a few of us would ever reach or feel the need to reach is self actualization. When every need below this is accomplished, we transcend to self actualization. This means that we need the desire for self fulfillment and the tendency to become actualized in what we think is our potential. This is our desire to become more than what our present state is. We need a meaning to our life, and we want to add a meaning to another's. This is where we have ambitions and fuel the desire to achieve them. This is the most humanistic approach to self actualization. This is our final need. The one state we want to live in indefinitely.

Now that you know how your needs work, you might even want to shape them, change them. Some people might be exeption to this, however a genuine person knows that this is the order in which he wants things to be achieved in his life, and this is the most basic approach we have bren living with, all these eons.