NEEDS

The more comfortable our lives become the more eager of satisfiaction was persued by human beings. As a result of this eager human beings finally came up the term ‘need’. These days, for average person, their needs would the ‘safety needs’. However, needs are differ by person’s social status and classe. In other words the more luxurious a person’s life is the more likely the individuals will seek needs, such as the satisfaction of mental and self-esteem; whereas, those who are less previledged would persue more basic needs for living.

To begin with, it is undeniable that those who are more previledged seek higher order of needs. Because those needs certain level of requirements. According to Maslow’s hierarachy, there are five levels of needs.  The higher levels get more complex and psychological as compared to the needs from the lower level. Those who are more previledged than others will try to acquire higher level of needs which is the satisfaction of mental and self-esteem. For example, it is not hard to find people who are previledge in many ways such as money or knowledge are doing activities such as painting, writing poem and many other things,  Even if those activities are not their hobbies they are doing this to improve individual’s quality and to be mentally stablized. These activities can hardly be found from average people’s lives. This indicates us that this types of persuing needs usually requires time and a good amount of money which is quite impossible for those who are not as previledged as mentioned ones.

However, for the other group who are referred to as ‘average’ people, they mostly seek lower level of needs and nine out of ten of those average people’s needs would be defined as ‘safety needs’. Due to increasing unemployment rates and decreasing job places, workers in the world are spending their days worrying whether if they would lose their jobs or not. They somehow abandon their rights to improve their quality, they decide to prepare for the worst circumstances. As a result, they cannot spend their money and time for their own needs but for their basic needs of living such as food, clothes and mosty importantly ‘Secured’ tomorrow. For example, according to the survey, average people save most of their incomes preparing for their future but hardly spend any for leisures and entertainment. This result tells us that social status is deciding one’s quality of life as well.

In a nutshell, people who are more previledged usually persue psychological and inner side of satisfiaction. Unlike to them, average people’s needs are basic and much more physical needs for ‘Survival’. Although unpreviledged people could also persue higher standard of needs. There is hardly any chance for them to reach those needs because complex needs requires money and time. However, As famous utilitarian John Stewart Milton said that qualitative needs is more important than quantitative needs, people are needed to persue their needs for themselves because we are all meant to shine.