Human Needs
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All living things have needs. Whether the needs be as basic as food or as complex as discovering the reason for existence, all organisms have them. "Maslow wrote that, beyond the basic needs for water, food, shelter, and the like, people's needs are 'for safety, belongingness and identification, for close love relationships, and for respect and prestige'". In a way, we all strive to fulfill these needs at some point in our lives. For example, in order to satisfy the need for safety, human beings live together in a society with laws that, if broken, have undesirable consequences attached. Most people also have friends and family throughout their lives to satisfy the need for close love relationships. As people grow older, they will, at least at some point, try to fulfill this need through a relationship with a significant other. One human need at all age levels and one that is recognized by my self is the need for belongingness or acceptance by one's peers. However, the way people become accepted is harder to determine than the other needs. How do individuals come to be accepted by their peers?..