CUT
SHORT YOUR WANTS
“Wants” are needs, necessities, desires, wishes, ambitions, hungers,
dreams, lusts,etc. They are of different importance. Some are indispensable;
many are superfluous. Their limit also matters. If you are contented, you need
only as much as is must for your survival. The rest is greed.
Here
is an important note: “All the desires and aspirations and motives of humans
are known as human wants in economics. And the wants that can be satisfied with
goods and services of any kind are economic wants. Like for example food,
shelter and clothing.
Besides
economic wants, there are some other wants which gratify the body, the mind and
the soul; like music, dance, poetry, literature, worship, meditation, travel
and all sorts of creativity.
However,
too many wants of anything are vicious. They are a sign of greed, hence have
painful consequences.
Indian
freedom fighter and saint Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) said that in the world in which we are placed ‘there is enough for everyone’s need, but not
for his greed.”
The
English clergy Caleb C. Colton (1780-1832 ) said: “We are ruined, not by what
we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore, never go abroad in
search of your wants: for if they be real wants they will come in search of
you. He that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.”
The
truth is that our real wants are very few and it is very easy to satisfy
them. On the contrary, our imaginary
wants are boundless and insatiable.
Finally
the most important thing is to enjoy your life by cutting short your wants and be
happy with whatever and as much as you have.
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G.R.Kanwal
1st November 2024
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