When we learn about the necessities in life, people always answer the three basic necessities, and honestly that cliched answer is becoming more and more monotonous each time one hears it. It's like it's on a tape recorder and each time the question is asked, the player plays it automatically on voice recognition - in this case vocabulary recognition.
"Food, Clothing, Shelter."
Really? Are those three things the only basic necessities? Here's my list of the basic necessities of human survival in today's world:
- Food: Which in my definition is anything we give our stomachs. It also includes clean drinking water, and all those commercial drinks that we chug down, and all that dumb junk food
- Clothing: Yes, we do need to be clothed, not only to be warm but to be human
- Shelter: this means a house, not a box in the street near a dumpster. This means solid walls that do not get blown away like the ones in the Three Pigs and the Wolf story
- Money: anyone who says money does not mean anything, needs to be kept in a mental institute. By money I don't mean you need to be a millionaire or a billionaire or anything on that line. By money, I mean a means of being able to purchase at least food. Why am I saying this? Simple. No money, no food, unless you can grow your own vegetables and grains, but then that would deprive you of meat, which you would need to buy anyway!
- Education: No education? No job!
I stand by my five basic basic necessities, but even getting these necessities is so hard, it becomes a challenge for people to get them. No matter how basic these may be, the procedure for attaining these things are so complicated, and so interlinked, that they all become one big necessity.
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