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October 2009 
All we need is love
Posted on Apr 3rd, 2009
by 
Kate
Kate
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for April 03, 2009:
I decided to click on the answers just to see if I could find any inspiration for my day.
It shocked me to see that a lot of people wrote down that they needed various things that really aren't necessary for survival. I was thinking more along the lines of needing as being something I can't live without.
The only things we need are food, clothing, shelter and love/contact/hope. My grandfather said we can only love others, not things. I was 10 years old in the dining room of his house facing the white corner cubbard when I remember him saying that the last time.
I was flying back to Denver from Austin about 2 years ago. I was sitting next to a man who's energy intrigued me quite a bit and I made it a point to find out why. We talked about our careers and that led to him talking about his traveling experiences. He is a lawyer that travels to Africa on his own dime to give Africans a trial that otherwise could not afford one. He said often, the conditions are so deplorable that men had not bathed for years on end...or are in jail for sometimes 10 years just awaiting a trial to prove their innocence. I remember him saying something like...above all the horrible things I have witnessed in my life, and believe me I have seen prisons from one corner of the globe to the other...African prisons are the worst, most horrifying prisons I have ever seen.' But the most moving part was the need the prisoners had just to be touched by another human being. They would put their hands out in desperation to just be able to feel his hand as he walked by.
It shocked me to see that a lot of people wrote down that they needed various things that really aren't necessary for survival. I was thinking more along the lines of needing as being something I can't live without.
The only things we need are food, clothing, shelter and love/contact/hope. My grandfather said we can only love others, not things. I was 10 years old in the dining room of his house facing the white corner cubbard when I remember him saying that the last time.
I was flying back to Denver from Austin about 2 years ago. I was sitting next to a man who's energy intrigued me quite a bit and I made it a point to find out why. We talked about our careers and that led to him talking about his traveling experiences. He is a lawyer that travels to Africa on his own dime to give Africans a trial that otherwise could not afford one. He said often, the conditions are so deplorable that men had not bathed for years on end...or are in jail for sometimes 10 years just awaiting a trial to prove their innocence. I remember him saying something like...above all the horrible things I have witnessed in my life, and believe me I have seen prisons from one corner of the globe to the other...African prisons are the worst, most horrifying prisons I have ever seen.' But the most moving part was the need the prisoners had just to be touched by another human being. They would put their hands out in desperation to just be able to feel his hand as he walked by.
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Very valid comment, but in my life right now, being unemployed through no fault of my own, obtaining food, clothing and shelter requires an income. It may seem materialistic, but I need money. I am fortunate that I am married to a wonderful person, but if I were alone, my material needs would have to be satisfied before those of human contact.