we run because we want to be chased.

i was having a conversation with weeejf about some wacky ideas for a marketing project. well, i never came up with any wacky cool ideas but i did learn something. i brought up the maslow hierarchy of needs and she told me there's a new maslow hierarchy of needs which is an exact inverse of the original that most of us have learnt before, i hope. it set me thinking. and i am pro this new inverted maslow hierarchy of needs.

in this newly evolved world that we are now living in, it is so much easier to fulfil the once-thought to be highest level on the maslow pyramid. even self-actualization doesn't seem like quite the big deal anymore. We have everything our ancestors from generations before lusted after and more. It is so easy to fulfil the materialistic needs that drives up our esteem. but the simpler, more basic needs are more often than not, overlooked.

it is not a very pleasing discovery. what has our world become? what are we becoming? this advancement in technology and life and everything else related is in fact, a downward spiral in which the simplest but most important things in life have been long forgotten.