This session of the workshop about needs and wants made me think how my needs are different from my wants. And I have always been confused of what I actually need and what i actually want. The need are all the basic necessities for my survival and my want is to buy to a new macbook. This generation of people can't really differentiate between what they actually need and what they actually want which leads to a dilemma in their lives.
Needs are things that are required 24/7 and wants are things that gives me temporary happiness and satisfaction.
According to Maslow there is a hierarchy which shows that humans first fulfil their basic requirements, then their safety after which about their belongings and family, which leads to self esteem and self confidence and at the end self realisation which is the peak of their potential
There is huge difference between chosen and given identity. Chosen identity is what you actually want to be yourself and given identity is the identity given to us by society and that is something that can't be changed.
Our first given identity is given to us on the day of our birth which is our gender and our relations with each of our family members. Also our religion becomes a tag to us and we can't change it. These decisions mark us with a lot of responsibilities in life which need to be fulfilled.
The chosen identity is an identity which we inculcate in ourselves as we grow up and it is of our choice what we want to be identified as in our future. According to parents they want their children to be doctors or engineers but I might want to be something every different like an make up artist. So it is our choice what we actually want to be and how we want our identity to be in society.
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