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Needs or Wants?

A thought that encompasses my life tonight. I am no poet, but I have something to say..

I hear you speak of your needs
Another person being the GREATEST of these
If you only read this but process nothing
At least my mind will rest in the knowledge of trying.

Needs.... in and of themselves are truly basic
Air, food, water, sleep, warmth, knowledge.
With these our body’s will function, life will happen.

Love.
Is Love truly a need?
Do we as humans need to feel/ experience love to survive? We tend to believe this as a fact, but if you put a man alone on the planet with only his basic needs provided for,  would he not survive? If he knew no other existence would he ever long for compaionship?
Or live out his years content with the world he is presented?

We all have “wants”  experience a longing even,
for love, acceptance, family, friends, touch, comunication,   companionship.
All these are often referred to as a human need.

But, if put to the test “wants” and true “needs” are vastly different.
God created our needs to be quite simple, I would think in order to ensure our survival.
However,
Then he created us with an ability to “WANT” endlessly....
“Wants” that constantly change, evolve, waxing and waning with the tides of our life.

Amazing creatures able to learn, grow, hear, taste, smell, touch, cry, hurt, heal, scream,  dream, even “know” without any proof!
Faith.
I “know” the sun will rise soon, I know I am breathing air.
I can even “feel” the love from my family....

I can not hold these things in my hand,
but I know them, feel them, believe them.
just as the heat of a flame or pain of a wound.

So, is it true that you can “NEED” another person?
Do you really believe your existence will cease with out a specific one?

A mother will believe her entire world has ended after the death of a child...
a part of her existence has gone from her,
forever,
but her lungs will continue to expand,
even when she curses them for doing so,
her heart still beating,
even when accompanied by such pain she begs for an end.

Life will continue with out her child,
It is possible,
even the strongest bond is still not a “need” but in fact a “want”of her soul.

Our true GOD given needs can never be meet by another, no one can draw each breath for you, consume the nutrients needed, live... exist for you.
Your needs are yours alone,
unique to each living thing
A special equation sustaining life in a multitude of form.

There are so many wants that disguise themselves as needs in our minds,
Telling us we need each one in order to be happy, healthy, even alive.

Really?...

“Happiness” is it really just a short lived chemical reaction processed by our body’s to make us believe our existence is worth saving?

                     SELF PRESERVATION!

Designed by God, or nature, evolution maybe? to ensure continuance of our species?

“Pain” isn’t it really just a series of signals,
pulses,
received by our brains also designed to keep us alive, make us react with preservation instincts?

Even involuntarily our muscles will react to sustain and protect life.

So... are those feelings of happiness, pain, LOVE, fear really just a figment of our imaginations?  
Chemicals available to help our body’s survive, and species breed?

OR.....

Do you believe each emotion is an extension of our Soul?
Is the human Soul a measurable thing?
As opposed to a creation of our brain as another means of survival?

I personally believe we have a soul that is everlasting and it is a substance,
a matter that is unique of all earthly matter, indestructible and infinite.

We are capable of such STRONG emotions, Love, Hate, Fear, excitement, happiness,  despair,  loneliness,  contentment, a beautiful array of possibilities.
If not necessary for survival of the human vessel?
Than products of our Soul,
the meaning of it all....
What is existence if not colored by our emotions?

Life is to experience.

All the amazing ways we are able to interact with each particle,  emotionally charged we can do the most amazing things, produce adrenaline capable of lifting the impossible to save a loved one,
even cause us to disregard all self preservation instincts and harm or end our own lives.
Does this not completely contradict our existence being solely to survive?

Emotion is the life blood of the human race, it is to be regarded for its power, treasured for its fragility,  and shared for its ability to change the the world we see...

Each life independently exists, feels and survives.

A truth that can never be changed, but by all should be heard.....
.

(2014)

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