Every man in this world have needs. To take a very big step back and observe the whole situation, theres no barometer by which one can measure how much one needs as compared to another. Its not a matter of degree of needs - a rich man would have needs as much as a poor man. A child would have as much needs as an adult. A person living in the slums would have as much needs as someone who holds a decent income and stays in a HDB. Its just the different sorts of needs each class has.

This same concept probaly applies in the area of those we label the 'less fortunate' versus us. The less fortunate, as in say mentally disabled children. But of course, this is but a labelization that was commited upon society's consensus. Does a proper rationalisation of both groups actually agree that we are the more fortunate batch? Perhaps it depends on the way you look at it. Is fortunate-ness the attatinment of happiness, and the gain of contentment? If so, the former are defintely the more fortunate batch. Because of a lesser demand, less 'worthy' expectations, their contentment is found relatively easily. But maybe one would like to consider the mental faculties, the ability to reason and the power to rationalise as needed elements to satisfy a joyful existence. If so, then we are the more fortunate batch. Then again, humans have also sought for happiness in the first place. Perhaps not similar a kind of happiness, maybe not the same a kind of contentment - but its only a different fashion. In the end, its still a felt emotion.

But what is it that we attach to our demands and expectations that allows the spawning of this other perspective? A complexity? A complication? A devotion towards the issue that intensifies our worries? An attention to the matter that blows up our conclusion? A concern that keeps bouncing back to the situation so that we can consider its past and its future and strive on towards the greater futures beyond them? Somehow, there is a need to provoke a mental anguish. To suppose a more stretched out view of the circumstance...

Oh wells. Somehow lost the inspiration... I had a whole lot more on this topic while on the ride and walk home, but lost the train of thought over dinner.


"When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grew older, I admire kind people." -- Abraham Joshua Heschel

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