Heights of Indifference!

Many a times, when I see people waste food, i feel miserable! Most of us eat at least twice a day. We select what we want to eat whether, we dine at home or outside. At home, we are pampered to eat and we are given a choice of what to eat. Outside home, obviously, we choose what we want to eat. Choices can go wrong in life, but not to the extent of wasting food everytime we sit to eat. Lot of under privileged children in this world don't have food to eat even once a week. Look at the kids below, how happy would they feel if they get to eat atleast once a day ?

I would like to relate the Maslow's hierarchy of needs to this. Each of us constantly keep growing and reach the various levels in Maslow's hierarchy. We have been gifted a decent life and we take all the effort to constantly keep growing. This growth may not be an intellectual growth. It is not climbing the hierarchy, rather growing inside a particular level. Rather, the growth terminates once it reaches the level of esteem. The leap is a huge one between steps 4 and 5 in Maslow's hierarchy and only a very few reach there.

The simple principle of climbing the hierarchy lies in the fact that the growth has to be mutual. It cannot be attributed to a single individual all by himself. Only when someone starts thinking truly of his society, can he attain self-actualization. Becoming financially famous doesn't really get you fame unless you spend it usefully. We can live in a palace , buy diamonds and BMW and eat cashews, pistas and almonds. But our brothers and sisters who are miles away from us don't have even a roof to protect them from sun or rain. While we waste tons and tons of food, they don't get even a grain of rice :( We can honestly climb and go to the state of self-actualization only when we enable our family who is away from us to atleast enter Maslow's hierarchy. Let each of us be a change maker and have this thought in our mind everytime we eat. If we pick only what we want, and dont waste what we picked to eat, 2 people can eat somewhere in the corner of the world!