What is the basic understanding of a want anyhow? I ask myself this in terms of wondering what makes me who I am in question. I want companionship because I'm lonely? I want role plays because I'm bored? Maybe I just want attention because I like it. Do I eat because I want to eat or because I need to eat? Do I want to breath air or do I need to breath air? Everyone always has a want and a need, but it makes me wonder what it is that makes up what a want or a need is.

By a dictionary term, a want is a desire or a need for something. But what is it that makes us desire something in life to begin with? Do we just 'desire' to eat out of hunger? Do we just 'desire' to breath out of lack of oxygen? Or do we just desire things that are shown to us in a way that makes us desire them out of interest or boredom? Sometimes a person would want, or desire, something for the sole fact they would not really have anything else to desire in life except such. I say a want would be 'something of interest that catches your attention' is more an appropriate way of looking at it.

Now a Need is a bit more odder. A need is written to be as 'a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation'. But what makes a desire a requirement? What makes an interest a 'necessary duty' to take? Why are we 'obligated' to obtain these things? I would imagine that if we needed something it would be something we cannot live without. We breath air because our body requires oxygen to function with. We eat food because our nutritional intake has to be at a level fit for allowing us to live longer. We drink water because our physical make up actually depends on it. Do we need television if we can entertain ourselves? Do we need homes besides living in shelters we can make ourselves to sustain us? Do we need to invest in things if we can make money ourselves through other means? One only needs what the body cannot live without to live is what I think. So I deduce that a need is more along the lines of 'what the persons physical make-up cannot live without'.

I might be going off on a nonsensical tangent but i wanted to just lay it out on the table and have it looked at for proper examination. But let me ask you, my fellow furries, this question. Can we not make these wants and needs fulfilled by ourselves? Do we need corporations to help us live? Do we need shops and malls to find sustenance we can grow? Do we need studios to entertain us for our mental health? If any of these are answered with no, then it means you have the ability to fulfill those wants and needs yourself. If any of those answers are yes, then perhaps you just want to rely on them for your own benefit. It's not a matter of black and white here though. It's a matter of what parts of society have become a need for us rather than a want. Do we simply want corporations or do we really need corporations? Do we want civilization or do we need it? I can't really answer this myself because I chose to want to live with my family from an interest in them and enjoyment. But what about everyone else?

What do you want and what do you need?