Our lives are filled with wants, these wants vary from the material, the emotional, the intellectual to the physical. Questions is are these wants wrong? If they are, why? If they aren't, are there levels of intensity for wants? How much can one want? Can want be eternally good or can want wander off to regions of forbidden intensities?
Binary oppositions teach us that to understand want you must know its opposite. Introducing another term : need. What is want opposed to need? How can one differentiate a need from a want?
Who determines what is a want and need? Can a want become a need?
By this time you might think me an irrational idiot who has nothing better to do than to ask these stupid and simple questions and boggle her brain.
True, I'd agree with you. Actually, I need to start on my assignment. But, if you're already bored, go find another blog to read (assuming someone is reading this - because I am 'syok sendiri' like that), I like to rant.
Well, these questions have been plaguing my mind.
I would consider myself practical enough (don't laugh) to differentiate need from want.
E.g. : I need God, daddy, mummy, siblings, food, water, air, clothes, money, shelter, love and chocolate to survive this life. I want more chocolate, friends, a car that moves from point A to B, cheese and Robert Downey Jr to enjoy life.
But, the question of want....
How much can on want? Because I want and I want so much.
I really want. I am so desperate in my wanting sometimes I think I am nuts. Can one want so much?
God help me, I am seriously stuck in a whirlpool of want, and I can't swim.
