Needs
What Do You Need?
Do you have needs? Don't we all? Psychologists sometimes use a drawing of a pyramid to describe all the needs we have. (I'm referring to the hierarchy of needs developed by Abraham Maslow.) They place the most basic needs at the bottom of the pyramid – things like food, water, and air. Above that they put safety, security, and health. The pyramid continues to build with needs that don't seem as vital near the top. Eventually you get to the need for “self-actualization” . . . and perhaps the need for a double hot fudge sundae. The point of the pyramid is that you will try to fill the most basic needs first. For example, your safety is a more basic need than ice cream so if you are in a burning building you probably are not going to be thinking “I would really like a hot fudge sundae about now!”
