I came across a nice story on needs and wants. I usually don't like to paste content from some other place. I prefer to provide a link to the source. I search for the content in google and i usually get a (or a lot) reference.
Like this particular story that I read now seems to find its place in a lot of blogs.
- http://akssara.blogspot.com/2010/09/postpone-what-i-want-to-do-for-what-i.html
- http://www.shayri.com/forums/showthread.php?t=71690
- https://prafulkr.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/postpone-what-i-want-to-do-for-what-i-have-to-do/
And possibly many other blogs also. I am reminded of a story titled "A=A+1" which used to do the rounds 20-25 years back. It was a nice catchy story how a typical middle class engineer from India goes to USA and then goes through a series of milestones in life (finishes graduate program, gets a job, buys car, gets married, has children, buys a house, wants to return for good to India but each year he has a problem (a new car loan, drinking water in India is not good, huge mortgage for house, children are too young, children are too big etc), so he promised himself "Next Year. I will definitely quit and go back home to next year". The return to India for good never happens.
While the story by itself was interesting, what was really funny was the number of acquaintances who claimed that it was their brother-in-law (who was the original Chetan Bhagat, "a bright middle class engineer from IIT who made good") who wrote it! Wonder why most people chosen a "brother in law" as the person who wrote it.
Coming back to the article on needs and wants, it seems quite similar to the article on Adam Khoo (http://vbala99.blogspot.com/2009/12/inspirational-share-with-children.html). And well written.
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