Want or Need?

This is for all the people out there that love shopping and .. lets say it... are SHOPAHOLICS!

First things first, lets start with the most basic questions of all. What is want and what is need?

Have we ever asked ourselves these two simple questions. And if yes, have we really understood them? Can we distinguish them when we talk about shopping and buying things?

Lets See!!

According to the English Dictionary, the word "want" means "to desire, to crave". The word "need", instead means "a condition or situation where something is required".

Well, here they are, two different meanings and yet, when women are shopping, do they shop by asking themselves "Do i really need this?"... If they do .. the answer is nearly always YES.

Fashion. A normal word, used everyday with a very powerful meaning. Within the term “fashion”, people manage to find lots of different meanings to describe it. But what is it really? Just a word, nothing more.

When I thought about it, I immediately thought that our feminine brains could not find a difference between them as we think that what we want IS what we need. Unfortunately, IT’S WRONG!

We would need ONLY a pair of normal blue jeans, two shirts (so you can change while it’s in the washing machine), a pair of sneakers and a jacket. This would be the basic look. Everyone has them, but in different quantities. Don’t tell me you own just ONE pair of jeans, or just ONE shirt and so on. That is nonsense!

What makes it even MORE difficult is the choice we have to make every morning when we wake up or every time we decided to go somewhere that is not home (unless you have visitors of course!). If I were to own just the basics, I would have no problems with myself in terms of deciding which is the best outfit for that rainy day, or for that appointment you have that night.

Fashion plays a big role in our lives and we give a lot more importance to it than necessary. Celebrities don’t obviously help us to make us feel at ease. They even challenge themselves sometimes. But how come one person posses more than another one? Money obviously. Being lucky enough to afford certain items of very famous designers is a dream for some, a privilege for others, and a (nearly) daily routine for even other people.

I am not lying when I say that NOT EVERYONE can afford EVERYTHING! Even the richest person on Earth, these days, does NOT have the possibility of buying a second planet Earth for (an extreme) example. Maybe, over time, even THIS would be possible, but up to now, I know no one that has that possibility.

I guess in the end, we are all, small or big, fashion victims. We all care about our appearance (whether you admit it or not) and there is nothing you can do about it because IT IS JUST THE WAY YOU HAVE BEEN CREATED. And what you want is certainly not what you need, because if that were to be true, then we would NEED everything we don’t have in order to be happy, and sometimes it is not satisfying knowing that YOU CAN HAVE EVERYTHING YOU WANT. No one would put effort anymore to reach their goals and people would underestimate one-another and that would not make us happy nor interesting people.

I am happy of not having the opportunity of getting everything I want because this way, when I think about it, I can distinguish between my needs and wants and feel better about myself not spending worthless money on useless things.

INVEST ON YOURSELF AND YOUR FUTURE, NOT ON WHAT YOU USE TO GET DRESSED!

I think it will be the best long-term investment you will ever do in life.