Maslow has identified the
human needs, and he explains that these needs are like a pyramid. The basic
needs in the bottom need to be fulfilled in order to fulfil the other needs
upper on the pyramid. Among these needs, he identifies that as humans we have
the need to belong to a particular group or society.
We sometime find ourselves
surprised in random groups. Well I found myself surprised in a group with
friends who do not share the same vision in life with me. As I go through the
pictures I took with these people along the years, I cannot help to ask myself
as to how could I have spent six years of my life with these people and be so
blind?
Was I just fulfilling this
need to belong to a social group? Or fulfilling needs to be loved and be listened
to by friends, regardless of what they believed in or how they lived their
lives. If so, then how valid are these statements that say: “birds of the same
flock fly together”, “you are who you hang out with”.
I have been a complete
different bird that flew with a different flock and did not realise it until my
need was satisfied. Is that what life has come up to be? To adapt, integrate, fulfil
the need and move on?
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