world dawns on us right from the time we open our eyes in the morning til we hit the sack..thousands of thoughts surround us ... keep emanating like a never ending waves in the sea...its desires..desires ...desires...goals..needs....dos...wants..musts...wah wah wah!!! just this range of desires vary..a businessman is worried abt his tax returns....and a beggar abt a next meal.. sometimes i think we have all been automated beings and become slaves of thinking abt needs..one might argue that its quite natural for beings like us to be worried abt our needs..after all we need to survive..well yes!! but in this very process we forget whats "life"...i dont agree that life is just this - this constant yearning and fight to survive here.. sure..some needs like food and shelter are indeed something to be concerned upon..probably if i talk abt this to a person whose basic needs are at stake..he might prolly get really mad at me...but this is pointed to an average man.. we have lost the idea how to live in peace..we seem to have forgotten whats peaceful life thats so content..so fulfilled... the yearning for something is what is the culprit here.. we dont give ourselves fully for what we are at that moment.. we try to swim instead of floating as osho says..
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this is what exactly I like in u.
It is directly linked to the systemic changes. We were all self sufficient with feudal economy. A farmer survived by growing crops and exchanging crops for other goods. When the value of goods were constant and proportional there was no necessity for surplus and desires were less in number (I want to distinguish between desires and greed here. What you have mentioned is more of greed. I'll come to this later) But in the system that is based on surplus and consumerism, most of us are expected to be greedy.
Coming to the needs and desires, not only humans, but also animals have needs and evolution has happened just around that. I'll give a few examples. Chicken lives only to eat and satisfy its energy needs. it has to lay eggs, roam around and escape from predators. Not only chicken, but all other animals are like that. Their only purpose of life is to sustain the species and make sure that the next gen survives. The lifespan is also proportional. The animals that produce more offsprings(when the chances of survival of offsprings are high) have less lifespan. Some produce less number of offsprings and some produce many, but only a few will survive; such animals will live longer. It's the nature of evolution.
Even in the case of dogs, captive dog breeds have shorter lifespans (they will serve their masters, produce offsprings and most of them survive; the whole breed has food security; They do not have competition) but the stray dogs live longer (great dane's average lifespan is 6-8 years, while stray dogs live for more than 16-18 years) as they are so vulnerable.
So, if we have no needs (other than those I have mentioned for animals) or even greed for that matter, our lifespan will drastically reduce (Even as the population erupts, the average lifespan is going down). While evolution will take its time to reduce the lifespan, the whole human race will fall into existential vacuum. Psychologically, the state of no needs will make many of us think that living has no point. Before the evolution would start to act upon us, most of us may commit suicide! So it's not so sensible to be devoid of needs. We cannot go back to the feudal economy.
Luxury is a product of greed. Let us be rational about distinguishing between sufficiency and luxury. Let us avoid greed and luxury (producing more children included- Selective holocaust of politicians is also a good idea :P). That itself is enough.
I AM AWARE OF THE FACT THAT MY COMMENTS ARE BLOATING BIGGER THAN THE ARTICLE ITSELF. PERHAPS I AM GREEDY :D IN THIS REGARD, I APPRECIATE YOUR ONE LINE COMMENTS REGARDLESS OF THE SIZE OF MY COMMENTS :P
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