Basic Needs

As humans, we have basic needs...

Obviously these fall into different categories.

We have a need for food. It sustains us physically. While we can go without it for a while, ultimately not having it will end us.

We have a need for water. Again, we can go without it, but dehydration is a very legitimate way to die.

We have a need for shelter. The elements of this planet are very strong. There is no way to 'fight' them. We must instead ward them off. This is done with shelter, and without it, we're gonna die.

Those are the needs they teach you about in grade school. There are other ideas like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

I feel like in the case I laid down, there is another basic need. This need is to be loved. The sad thing about this need not being met is that it happens far more than the others. However it doesn't need to physical death. Not being loved compounds on itself though, and can kill somebody emotionally. It ends up just as sad as physical death, and I would argue, at times sadder. We try to meet this need with false sources of love. On top of that, I think we try to have our love need manifested in other forms. (This is kinda off the cuff...I think I believe some of it though) We want to say we need to have it all together so people will love us. We say we need the iPhone so we can be cool and people will love us by talking to us. We say we need to be in a relationship with someone of the opposite sex because ONLY that will meet our needs. (I wrestle with this one, because I think there are certain needs met by someone of the opposite sex being a significant other, but I don't think many of those needs can't be met by strong friends in the same sex) So basically, I'm saying we need to be loved. Let's be the ones to meet other's needs

Let us go forth and love...