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The Needs, The Wants and The Would-Like-To-Haves

In life, we learn new lessons every day; some we forget and some end up being the life changing perspective that we wish to spread to everyone we come across. One such lesson for me has been this “The wants, the needs and the would-like-to-haves”. Now, on the surface of it, they look very similar; they denote something or someone we desire to have in our possession or our life, but if you go a bit deeper, you would realize they are indeed very different. And understanding this difference can be truly life-changing. It all comes down to how we evaluate something that has come in our life and do a cost-and-benefit analysis before we put effort into it in order to not just save energy and time but also, maybe avoid getting hurt. A lot of the times, we spend our energy on gaining something or mourning a loss of something that wasn’t actually adding more to our life than it was taking. So, what exactly is the difference, let’s get to it. When we talk about the needs we are referring to the...