Sunday, April 01, 2007
Desires. Again.
Alright I bitched too much in the previous entry that I've actually forgotten to discuss about other more important issues regarding desires. It's amazing how the desire to bitch can make me forget about what I had originally planned for the previous post. Hence, this entry exists to correct that horrible mistake.
I don't know how I managed to leave this out the previous time, but the crux of my previous entry was supposed to be about universal desires. For it seems to me that, even though different people have different desires, the desires tend to revolve around general.. stereotypes. It seems like the wrong word to use, but I have no idea what other word I can use to express my thoughts.
An example of these "universal desires" would be the desire for love. It is manifested in different forms for different individuals, but I think it is one of the basic, universal desires that all humans.. desire. It is the reason why we make friends, why we get attached with a boyfriend/girlfriend, and even how we seek understanding from family members. However, different people do it differently. When in need of love, some choose to seek solace in members of the opposite sex, while others choose to confide in their closest friends.
But whatever the case is, I think the reason why each of us desire for love is simple: It is the need to feel important. Being loved would mean that somebody actually cares that you are alive. The thing is, most of us do not just want to merely exist. We want to know that somebody actually needs us, just as much as we need them. That gives us a reason to live on. At least that's how I feel. This idea seems to have been explored in Naruto, where what many of the shinobi (e.g. Naruto, Haku, Gaara, and the list goes on..) wanted was to feel important, to find meaning for them to exist.
Another one of the universal desires, i suppose, would be the desire for money, for we are living in a very materialistic world, where it seems impossible to pass a day without any expenditure. But again, this desire is manifested differently for different people. Especially when you split people into different income groups. I suppose rich people don't desire for money as much as poor people, since they already have much of it. But then again, I'm reminded of this famous statement made by the Oracle from the Matrix trilogy: "What do men with power want? More power." So I guess it would be unfair to generalize. But the point is, all of us want money. Be it greed or simply for survival.
There's more examples of these "universal desires" that I can give, such as the desire to look good, the desire to make a difference, (I'm sure most of us thought of it some time or another) etc. But all these desires boil down to one desire: The desire for happiness. Why do we want love? To be happy. Why do we want money? To be happy. The truth is, what most of us want is simply to be happy. It seems very vague, but that's how it's meant to be, for different people have different measures for happiness. For me, I don't really know what can make me happy. I'm still trying to find out. Maybe for me, it'll be one of those things which will elude me the harder I try to find it, for until now, it still seems rather far away. Or maybe it's simply because I don't know when to be contented. Either case, I guess I'll carry on searching for my own happiness.
N.B.: YES!!! I DIDN'T BITCH AT ALL IN THIS ENTRY!! W00T!! (Oh man I sound so childish..)
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I don't know how I managed to leave this out the previous time, but the crux of my previous entry was supposed to be about universal desires. For it seems to me that, even though different people have different desires, the desires tend to revolve around general.. stereotypes. It seems like the wrong word to use, but I have no idea what other word I can use to express my thoughts.
An example of these "universal desires" would be the desire for love. It is manifested in different forms for different individuals, but I think it is one of the basic, universal desires that all humans.. desire. It is the reason why we make friends, why we get attached with a boyfriend/girlfriend, and even how we seek understanding from family members. However, different people do it differently. When in need of love, some choose to seek solace in members of the opposite sex, while others choose to confide in their closest friends.
But whatever the case is, I think the reason why each of us desire for love is simple: It is the need to feel important. Being loved would mean that somebody actually cares that you are alive. The thing is, most of us do not just want to merely exist. We want to know that somebody actually needs us, just as much as we need them. That gives us a reason to live on. At least that's how I feel. This idea seems to have been explored in Naruto, where what many of the shinobi (e.g. Naruto, Haku, Gaara, and the list goes on..) wanted was to feel important, to find meaning for them to exist.
Another one of the universal desires, i suppose, would be the desire for money, for we are living in a very materialistic world, where it seems impossible to pass a day without any expenditure. But again, this desire is manifested differently for different people. Especially when you split people into different income groups. I suppose rich people don't desire for money as much as poor people, since they already have much of it. But then again, I'm reminded of this famous statement made by the Oracle from the Matrix trilogy: "What do men with power want? More power." So I guess it would be unfair to generalize. But the point is, all of us want money. Be it greed or simply for survival.
There's more examples of these "universal desires" that I can give, such as the desire to look good, the desire to make a difference, (I'm sure most of us thought of it some time or another) etc. But all these desires boil down to one desire: The desire for happiness. Why do we want love? To be happy. Why do we want money? To be happy. The truth is, what most of us want is simply to be happy. It seems very vague, but that's how it's meant to be, for different people have different measures for happiness. For me, I don't really know what can make me happy. I'm still trying to find out. Maybe for me, it'll be one of those things which will elude me the harder I try to find it, for until now, it still seems rather far away. Or maybe it's simply because I don't know when to be contented. Either case, I guess I'll carry on searching for my own happiness.
N.B.: YES!!! I DIDN'T BITCH AT ALL IN THIS ENTRY!! W00T!! (Oh man I sound so childish..)
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