Are our wants and needs the same? If NO, then what is the
difference between wants and needs?
Wants
Our wants are the things that we wish or desire to get. We
just want to have these things because we want to have them. Our wants are
things that we can survive without. We do not really need our wants in order to
survive. It is for this reason that our wants are made up of a great deal of
luxurious items. While we really don’t need to have these wants in order to
survive, they are endless and insatiable. We always crave for these wants. For
example, a student might wish for a mobile phone, a computer, an MP3 player,
the latest Justin Bieber album, etc. These are all luxury items that the student
can do without. They are therefore referred to as wants. Naturally people never
get satisfied with their wants.
Needs
What are our needs? Our needs differ greatly from our wants
in the sense that they are indispensable or essential to our survival. Some
writers define needs as our indispensable or essential wants. Our needs are
simply the things that we cannot do without or cannot survive without. We need
them in order to survive or achieve a particular goal. For example, water is
everybody’s need. Food is also one of everybody’s numerous needs. One of a student’s
needs might include a course textbook. The course textbook becomes his need at
that particular moment because it is essential or necessary to his passing of
the course.
This is the difference between our wants and our needs.
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