Food, clothing and shelter are our basic needs in life. And we do all that we can to ensure there is a certainty for our basic need. Building a permanent house to stay, buying clothes for all seasons and storing food for a longer duration. And as most of these requirements cannot be stored for more than a certain timeframe, we have invented a battery to store all these in the form of money. It’s a human invention to store certainty of as many things as we can. You can buy almost anything with money which falls in at the bottom of Maslow’s pyramid. The layer above this in the pyramid is of safety and security. That too is available with money in an open market.
Have you seen how birds start their day? Or any wild animal for that matter. They all start their day with complete uncertainty about their basic needs. They don’t know if they are food available. Some have a nest; others don’t. There is no safety guaranteed against any life threats from other animal or human beings. Every day in their entire life, they face uncertainty the way we humans breath. If we observe our breathing, we can see how uncertain every breath is for us humans. We take it for granted, but we can also be grateful for each breath we take—just food for thought.
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