Need

Are we born selfish?

We are born with need - our first need is to breathe - Then the need to eat, drink and survive. From here, our needs develop. We need sleep, we need love, we need comfort and even our bodies have certain needs as we develop within our life time.
Our needs - when we are born are quite basic. I remember lessons at school that were taught to me differentiating the major difference between our needs and wants.
Is this because naturally the human condition is to mix the two up? Or is it because we become greedy and can not remember what is truly important?
The more we receive the more we expect from our lives, the less we have, the more we desire. The greater our need to want.
As the human race we become more demanding and above all, more selfish.

Animals are driven by instinct, this allows them to hunt, mother or survive in the wild. Does this constitute for our needs? The major difference between man and animal is conscious... Our needs have become such a consuming act of man that it is beyond instinct, it is beyond survival... The act of survival in man has become an empty manifestation, to such a degree in my opinion, that not even death can interfere with the lust of life that man has grown.

We need to prioritise what is truly important in our lives - instead people choose to point fingers out to others, it is easy to shrug off responsibilities to those around us and never find blame for the acts of our needs.

What are your needs? What are your wants? Maybe this time round we need to help others discover what is truly important or even better, empower those with less.