Need is different from want, so what do you need?

I am very lucky to have you all as my blessed family on this platform because you all understand what I am currently passing through that has been affecting me not to pay attention to all articles but I do try my best to tip it all. You all didn't react to me the way I am presently doing by not reading my article or not commenting on it, NO. You all never did that instead you keep on reading and commenting when necessary, I pray for you all that good things will never cease in each and everyone's life in Jesus name. I appreciate it and I must say a very BIG THANK YOU to you all.

Let me go straight to the business of the day, we all are familiar with the definitions of these two words, is just that we fail to use them in the right place or the right context. For those who don't understand know the meaning, let me quickly do a brief definition for each;

• Need according to oxford means to require something or somebody because they are essential or very important, not just because you would like to have them

• Want according to oxford means to have a desire or a wish for something

What can we denote from the two definitions? We all can see that need is what we are required to have for immediate use, what we are going to use immediately after getting it, it means that thing that we have been panting for to have and make use of after getting them while want is what we wish to have not because we will use them immediately after getting them but because we felt we should just have it should in case that we might need them or what we wish we should have because other people who are our friends or neighbour has it, whereas we don't need it for need it immediately. I hope I am beginning to clarify the difference between the two words. Let me sight an example to buttress my point.

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Mr A has a wife and five children and those children have started going to school while Mr B is a single man whose job is so close to where he is living. Mr A office is far from home and his children school is also far from home, his children do board the public transport to their school and Mr A also does that which causes him to be late for work, whereas Mr B doesn't have to board a public bus before getting to his working place because it is not far at all and it's trekkable.

Let me ask a quick question, what does Mr A need to overcome his lateness and do you think Mr B also need what Mr A also need?

I am sure you are done answering the question on your mind and the answer is definitely a Car. Mr A needs a car so to get over the lateness and ease his expenses of transport fare spent on his children and for himself, he did not want it all in the name of I have a car but needs it because he has to reduce his expenses on transport fare.

Mr B does not need a car because his working place is not far from his house and there are no expenses he is trying to overcome or subdue but he might want it or let me say he wants it because he wants to show his fellow friends that he has a car or he wants to be part of people using the car on his area.

I hope we all understand the illustration given. So many of us buy things because we want them and not because we need them and in the end we regret buying them. Let me face the ladies first by saying there is a lot of money we could have saved for the future but because of our constant spending on things we want and not needed, we could save. You will buy cloth today, the next day you will buy another one because your friend has it or because it is the one trending whereas you don't need cloth as at that present time. Men too have their own, they spend their money on shirts and shoes whereas they have enough to keep them going, they buy them because it is trending and not because they need them or many buy car because his friend has. They might not have the ability to run the car expenses and again they don't need it but they want it to feel among with their friends.

Lesson to learn;

We shouldn't buy things becusee we want them most of the time, I am not saying it is not good but it is always good to set out priorities right, by so doing it will help us save a lot for the future. We should know what we need at the present and buy them but we should not go for what we want when we have what we need on ground.

Go for what you need ahead of what you want, know this and know peace ✌️.

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Thanks for reading and I hope you learnt a lot from this. When you learn new things from my article, it is always my happiness and joy. God bless you for reading and supporting me.

Byee for now🥰🥰🥰.

11th September 2021.