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Wants, Needs and Desires... Are they really different?

It’s one of those days where you sit and look at your life and wonder how you got here? Where is here? Well... here is sitting in my living room, drinking my coffee, thinking about all things I have done and all those I haven’t; my aspirations and my achievements, contemplating if I could be doing more... Am I using more in the sense that these are things I want verses things I need ? Will what I want lead me to a deeper fulfillment, therefore making me feel more satisfied with where I am in life or is that just my mind creating new ways to avoid what appears to be a “problem” with my current state of living. Question of the hour: “What is behind your compulsive desire to improve?” ‘I want to be better’ VS ‘I need to be better’... what’s the difference? Does your want to be better stem from the same seed that drives your need to be better? People will tell you that ‘needs’ are your basics; food, water and shelter and that a ‘want’ is something you’d like to have......