You may want celebrity status, love and affection. Your aim could be the accumulation of millions in savings or a house with a picket fence. The latest car or the largest diamond has your thoughts spinning. Yet you need none of this to continue to breath.
Your heart continues to beat and your organs function. Even when all hopes and dreams have been shattered. There’s a big difference between need and want.
A child relies on their parents for food, warmth, and clothing. The elderly reliant on the same necessities as they walk toward the tail end of life. Becoming frail and dependent on others.
Wanting.
We have become accustomed to creature comforts. Enjoying material wealth.
You don’t need your phone to live. That’s a luxury item. Something we all take for granted.
We have our hearts, minds and souls invested in our sweethearts. Any alteration to this partnership can break us. We can love and feel grief over lose. Yet we still breathe.