On Need

Our most fundamental needs are for water, food, and shelter.

Or are they?

What of air?  Is our most fundamental need, not air?

Air is the product of what? The component of air that is oxygen, {about 20%} is produced by trees, which also filter air by removing excess carbon.

So perhaps our most fundamental need is for trees?

No, I don’t think it is that either.  I think our most fundamental need is for beauty. Thankfully beauty abounds in virtually everything, and virtually everywhere. All we need do is seek it, and we find it.

Is the air not beautiful? When it is clean it is, but when it is dirty?  Well, the air is still beautiful, but the pollution we pump into it?  Not so much.  So I must ask you this, if pollution is not so beautiful, why do we produce so much?

Our most fundamental need is not air, water, food, shelter, or beauty.  Our most fundamental need is for everything.  You see…

Everything matters. Everything.

About C.G.Ayling

Musing misuser of words, lover of lyrical literature, author, occasional contrary thoughts. An honorable man’s name, in memoriam.
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