For the past couple months now, I have had a strange urge to obtain a job. Not a full time job or just a babysitting job, but a part time job. This is a strange feeling for me since I have never really been gung ho about having a job to complete, so as I let my mind race through appropriate jobs I could possibly obtain, I started to question myself as to why I so desperately aspired to work, then it hit me like a ton of bricks. A job is something you do because someone needs someone else to do something for them. As I thought through this, I realized the most significant part of that sentence, ‘someone needs someone else’. Those four words could not be more fitting. Everyone not only needs but wants to be wanted and needed. The sheer force of wanting to be wanted is such a powerful and defining characteristic of our soul, it simply cannot be ignored, no matter how much we wish it could sometimes. Wanting to be needed or needing to be wanted, whichever applies, is in my opinion the most humbling need one could ever openly declare.
After I noticed this, various needs of others began to draw my attention. At home, the want to be needed is more than met. My home for me is a place of candid, compelling love. Whether the dishwasher needs to be unloaded or the laundry needs to be done or even just a reassuring hug, whatever is at the top of the needs list, it seems to never fail to achieve what it is obliged to. At school, needs are much more lucid, being that it is typically a need for sleep, a pencil, or extra time on an assignment. All of these seem to root from needing someone. It is only human nature to want to be needed and need one other. Proof is in the history, Adam and Eve is a excellent and timeless example of an individual’s desire for need and want. Adam took the fruit from Eve because he loved her, trusted her, and aspired to be needed by her. Though he was certainly wrong for eating from the tree of knowledge, he did because he needed to be wanted.
It is unknown to me why God gave us such a powerful urge for others, then again, it is unknown to me most of the things God does. God gives us needs for others that are unfathomable to me, and the simple need to be wanted is so mind blowing, I have no other choice to oblige to it. What I am certain of is this: I feel like a could walk on water when I am needed or wanted, my sister fulfills my need for being wanted every single day. I will continue to question things like this every day, not only because it is important to me, but it is important to society as well. I feel gathering opinions like these that help base our world are healthy and stimulating.
Caroline♥
