Minimalism aur Maslow!

What is it like to be from a land of the pure? rhetoric and tea, comes like a perfect duo. If you are a liberal, the country must give you freedom to drink your black label, and if you are a conservative, the country must give you freedom to drink your yellow label. While, who gets to do what, only depends on how much money your account holds. The ruling elite has that! and they are free to be liberal or conservative.

Now Maslow's hierarchy of needs comprising of basic needs, psychological needs and self fulfillment needs, has gone haywire in my society. For us, psychological needs comes first, where everyone is obsessed with intimate relationships. If you are a middle class, your parents approval means everything. But thats grossly incorrect. Why? because we are mostly idealizing the perfect marriage with finding our soulmate. Some cunningly use it an opportunity to climb the socioeconomic ladder. And yet the unhealthy need for sex, on the many levels has led to harassment at the hands of men and women, who have power to-do-what-they-want. Its ubiquitous in educational institutes, in corporate culture and within families. 

Food is a need and for some a luxury, water is going to become a luxury, the right to shelter and rest, is relative, security and safety, well, its deterrence...... the gold statement is that... its all about money. Money is prestige, money is accomplishment. If you don't believe that, you are not normal in view of modern Descartes. 

If you feel like playing cricket the Wajahat Ullah Wasti way, then you can survive, yes you can. Forget about money, basic needs, or getting married. Be a minimalist. Many of us spend money we have earned or not, upon consuming ideas and commodities, we don't want, to impress people we don't know or worse hate. So, the peace probably lies in our love for ourselves, and the pact to be comfortable to live on our own, for ourselves. 

The world after COVID 19 is going to be changed, the markets have gone under recession, so as a reaction we have to change the perception of self actualization. It starts with me, and ends with me. The tendency to consider pleasure or its presence as happiness, has to end. Consume less. Donate more. With that said, this piece comes to an end. 

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