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The Loss Gain And Change Of Want Summary

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The Loss, Gain, and Change of Want and Need Gluttony: Noun; Habitual greed or excess in eating. Synonyms: Greed, insatiability. Gluttony, one of the seven deadly sins as mentioned in some religions, normally has a negative connotation. Say a man buys twelve doughnuts was originally going to buy a salad. His want for the sugar turned to a need due to gluttony. This wiped the need of the salad from his mind entirely. It is interesting how easily the wants and needs of a person can change and switch. However, how does this happen? Better yet, how do we make the choice between want and need in the first place. Well, we decide this by evaluating different aspects of our lives and they can change due to changes in these aspects. Age is one of the more prominent factors that help determine our wants and needs; It cannot be prevented or stalled. As age goes on, old men and women might give away worldly possessions and die “...as a saint might die” (Saikoku, Paragraph 1). Those who do this have pushed away their wants and needs in preparation for the inevitable. Their age and realization of their mortality caused …show more content…

For one, one woman, from a poem, makes sure that she counts eight engagement rings” daily, all of them hers (Komunyaka, Page 433). The woman became greedy and went out of her way to get eight bands of metal. Her greed pushed her over the edge and her want became need. Synonymous to that, after King Midas found out his hatred for the Golden Touch he ordered, “Princess, come no closer, my rigid kiss” and continued, saying his touch was a problem (Moss, Page 462). The king’s fear pushed his daughter away despite his want to love her. His fear restrained him from doing anything rather than what was needed to do; It was needed that he not touch his daughter to keep her safe. It seems as though emotions are one more factor in the decision between want and

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