Needs

According to the website, Wikipedia, the definition of “Needs” is something that is necessary for organisms to live a healthy life. Furthermore, in 1943, psychologist Abraham Maslow first introduced hierarchy of needs which is called Maslow’s hierarchy which is now widely being used for any humanism studies: physiological needs, safety needs, love & belonging, esteem and self-actualization. Basically, no matter what kinds of organisms, the fundamental needs are nearly the same. However, even though the factors of the needs overlap with others, individuals will behave or make decisions differently from others based on how they prioritize the needs in their lives. It means that different perception towards the term “Needs” affect people’s behavior and decisions: physiological needs, emotion and self-esteem.

The most basic needs in organisms’ lives would be physiological needs. Physiological needs consists any physical needs in order to survive, which are water, air and food to satisfy physiologically and shelters and clothes for physical protection. This factor is the most important fundamental needs among all, because to achieve all the different needs such as self-esteem or emotional needs, we have to be physically healthy and have no problem in surviving. Therefore, everyone will take physiological matter as the main issue to achieve. This can be explained by looking at undeveloped country like Africa where people live without much of dreams, self-esteem and love but pursuing for foods to eat, water to satisfy their thirst and shelter for the day. Moreover, in recent disaster in Japan also tells that foods and shelter are basic needs for human’s life. After all the disaster which took victims’ houses and fortune and everything, Japanese government is trying their best to provide free shelter and foods for them to survive at least. This decision is also made based on which necessaries are the most in needed for them.

Everybody desires to be loved and cared, and that affection needs affect people’s behavior and decisions. People can’t live alone without feeling loved or a sense of belonging.  Including human, all creatures like to feel loved and how much they are important and mean to others. Therefore, people who believe that feeling loved and expressing to loved ones are important, they like to show how much they care about them and express how they are feeling towards them as well as how much they are important to them. At the same time, they want to hear the same from their loved ones and be treated the same way as the respond. Oppositely, some who do not believe in respecting others feeling then they tend to be disrespectful and hurt people. People who don’t feel important and left out may affected emotionally which may allow them to make bad decisions easily. This is because their behavior has affected negatively because they are sad or hurt emotionally.

When the basic needs are accomplished, people would still hope for more which are self-actualization and esteem in this case. Self-esteem is positioned on top in Maslow’s hierarchy. It means that is the most last needs for people and the least essential compare to physical needs and affection. In other words, self-esteem and self-actualization can be rephrased to self-respect, self-confidence and self-worth. It overall means that evaluate or appraise themselves highly or worth. Some mistaken self-actualization and self-esteem are most important and essential in their living. This could be commonly happen among the people who enjoys standard class or above standard living due to the fact that they would not have to bother worry about any basic needs in their lives. These people would not give up their self-esteem for any other basic needs, because they believe that self-confidence is more important. Even though, this could be easily seen in high standard living people, it can be seen in standard living style. Especially, nowadays, there are many people like young people who would give up families, friends, food, house and more to get something what makes them feel proud and more worth.

To conclude, as the elaboration above, the perception toward different levels of needs vary depend on individuals and it can affect their behaviors and decisions. Like it was mentioned earlier, if we do not prioritize needs properly according to what we really need rather than want, it could bring us a moment of happiness but long term of suffer. Therefore, whenever we get to make a decision or behave we should prioritize what we needs the most and be considerate in order to make right decision and behave.

Success

The word “Success” is used when people achieved their goals or what they wanted. At the same time, success is defined differently to different people based on their thoughts and beliefs which have been influenced by their environment. This could be widely varied depends on individuals. However, success is most commonly defined as being rich, powerful and be loved.

Many people tend to think success as being rich and earning lots of money. This is because if you have more money, you can enjoy your life much more without being stressed about any financial problems. Furthermore, the saying ‘There is nothing you cannot buy with money’ explains how much money is valuable and powerful in human’s life. Therefore, many people believe that being rich will enable them to fully enjoy their lives without worries and it will lead them to happiness.

Secondly, some people believe that being powerful is being successful. Being powerful could mean in high position to some people. However, for others it may not only means high position but it could mean being influential. People who think being in high position is a success, they believe that authority will enable them to enjoy their lives much better and convenient then it will finally bring happiness. As an example, CEO in a big company has more power and reputation which will be held in honor by others and have more authority to subordinates and as well as from outside of the company.

On the other hand, people who think being an influence person is a success believe that influencing others is more successful thing in their lives than being rich or in high position with reputation. For an instance, Oprah Winfrey is one of the most influential people in the world. Oprah Winfrey is neither president nor CEO of company, but she is a talk-show host in America. Oprah Winfrey is now one of the most influential people and she has even published her biography and it became a best seller. This is because everyone thinks that she is a successful woman whom they admire and want to be like. This also indicates that influential person can be powerful without any high position either in company or society.

Lastly, other than ambitious beliefs towards success such as being rich and powerful, people who take emotions and affections more importantly consider beloved and having a good family and relationship is a success. As love and affection is one of the basic needs in human’s life other than physical needs, they believe being loved and cared are essential success. This is because they do believe that even though affection and relationship are essential in people’s lives, it is not easy to achieve at the same time. Moreover, one of the reasons why many people believe in this belief is that they think people with stable relationship are more likely to be prosperous in any field compare to whom without. Therefore, number of people thinks having a good relationship with family and people around them then beloved by them is the most important in their lives.

To conclude, even though individuals have their own definition of success in their lives, the most typical thoughts of success are being rich, powerful and successful in relationship.

Attitude towards writing

Attitude towards writing

Through taking the questionnaire about my attitude towards writing, I realized that I am far behind than others in liking writing.

I believe that I enjoy writing short notes about what I think or feel and what I need to do or did as a self-reminder which are more like doodling. Therefore, I like to keep short diary of my own.

Additionally, sometimes I do enjoy writing to friends. I write to my friends and family on their birthday or any special days in order to keep in touch and let them know how much I care about them by writing something that I could not tell in person or how I really feel.

However, I am not really a type who would like to write a long writing or essay as well as which would be publish.

I think it is because I do not read much and creative. Therefore, when it comes to writing about something that I am new to or within given topic, I am always lack of ideas what to write about.

To conclude this writing about my writing attitude, I realized that I should be more creative and in order to achieve that I should try to read more.

Kimchi

Kim-chi

Nowadays, many of different kinds of Korean foods are being popular and being eaten in many various countries. There are Kimchi, bi-bim-bap, kim-bap, sam-gyup-sal, bul-go-gi and more. Kimchi is one of the most famous Korean traditional dishes which are made through fermenting vegetables. Many foreigners tend to recall Kimchi when they are thinking of Korea.

According to the written history about Kimchi, Kimchi was found and being eaten from 2600 to 3000 years ago. At first, Kimchi was called ‘cimche’ which has the original meaning of ‘pickled vegetable’ followed by second given name ‘dimche’ which was purely renamed because of palatalization.

There are many kinds of Kimchi, for example, cabbage-kimchi, mul-kimchi and ggak-du-gi. Among all the different kinds of Kimchi, the most common and well-known Kimchi is cabbage Kimchi which is made by fermenting celery cabbage with Korean traditional seasoning. The seasoning would be made from mixing garlic, ginger, fish sauce, Korean spicy powder called go-chu-ga-ru and more.

Furthermore, other types of Kimchi are being differentiated by normal cabbage Kimchi depends on the ingredients and the way to make it. While normal cabbage Kimchi is being made by fermenting cabbage, ggak-du-gi is made by cubed radish with similar seasoning with cabbage Kimchi. Even though there are various types of Kimchi, most of them are being seasoned with similar ingredients.

In Korea, Kimchi is the most basic side dish for meals. It means Koreans like to eat Kimchi with their every single meal which led Kimchi to be like a ‘must-have-item’ for Koreans when it comes to having a meal. This can be proven by the issue which was raised in 2010. In 2010, there was a rise in price of Kimchi ingredients such as cabbage due to rainfall that affected the harvest of cabbage and other raw ingredients. Then it was such a huge issue for Koreans, so Korean government had to find alternatives to get harvests through importing from other country or by helping out local harvesting.

As I have mentioned previously, Kimchi is the most Korean style of food and most being eaten food by Koreans. Therefore, Kimchi is deemed a precious and essential food for Koreans.