Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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Enter in at your own risk....
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The following poetry is true. The names have been changed to protect me.
Enter in at your own risk....
The following poetry is true. The names have been changed to protect me.
Enter in at your own risk....
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Wants, Needs and Reality
"You can't always get what you want...but if you try sometimes, you get what you need" so says Mick Jagger.
So what is it about wants, the innate human desire to have, possess and covet all things that fancy our eyes and desires? And the best wants are the ones we can't have. The ones that are either just out of reach or are just not reachable. What is that driving force within that makes us pursue these wants with a fiery passion that can sometimes can consume us; and sometimes bring us to our knees. Could we be innately masochistic? Or is this Freud's famous "id" that has run amok.
And when we don't get what we want, can we be happy with getting what we need? I think it was innately put in us to confuse wants and needs. Because when we say we need something, what we are really saying is that we want it. Needs are too basic, seemingly unattractive because it can be met. Wants creates needs, but which need is better than the other? If we look at our needs at on a primitive level, it doesn't seem appealing. There is something about the chase of the want; the desired want that sparks and creates a life in an of it self. A life that will only be distinguished when it is either obtained or the need was met. Maybe not the way you plan, but it is still met. The reality is that in today's society we are bombarded by what the media tells us we should want, why we want it and if we don't get it that we must not be enough, or have enough.
And maybe reality is Freud’s "ego" and "superego" dancing to make the need met. And once met, we look back at the lost want and realize what we wanted really isn't what we needed. And yet when that "id" raises it's mischievous ideas, the cycle begins again.
And if we decide to pursue an unattainable want, one can always rely on the "id" defense...
Anything's possible
So what is it about wants, the innate human desire to have, possess and covet all things that fancy our eyes and desires? And the best wants are the ones we can't have. The ones that are either just out of reach or are just not reachable. What is that driving force within that makes us pursue these wants with a fiery passion that can sometimes can consume us; and sometimes bring us to our knees. Could we be innately masochistic? Or is this Freud's famous "id" that has run amok.
And when we don't get what we want, can we be happy with getting what we need? I think it was innately put in us to confuse wants and needs. Because when we say we need something, what we are really saying is that we want it. Needs are too basic, seemingly unattractive because it can be met. Wants creates needs, but which need is better than the other? If we look at our needs at on a primitive level, it doesn't seem appealing. There is something about the chase of the want; the desired want that sparks and creates a life in an of it self. A life that will only be distinguished when it is either obtained or the need was met. Maybe not the way you plan, but it is still met. The reality is that in today's society we are bombarded by what the media tells us we should want, why we want it and if we don't get it that we must not be enough, or have enough.
And maybe reality is Freud’s "ego" and "superego" dancing to make the need met. And once met, we look back at the lost want and realize what we wanted really isn't what we needed. And yet when that "id" raises it's mischievous ideas, the cycle begins again.
And if we decide to pursue an unattainable want, one can always rely on the "id" defense...
Anything's possible
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