Life necessities. I feel that these are personal opinion. What some people would say as a human right, a necessity to live, may be seen as a luxury to another person. Human rights are those rights which are essential to live as human beings. Without these human rights, people can't survive and develop with dignity. It's no big secret that in the world there are poor and rich countries. I am from Great Britain which has more money than some countries in places like Africa where people can't afford a place to live or clean drinking water. These poor countries can't even give their people the basic human rights that we have. The three things that everyone will agree are necessary to live are clean drinking water, food and shelter. These are things which every human should have, they are essential to life. Without clean drinking water, people can die through contracting diseases such as Cholera. Without food, people die of starvation and without shelter; people are exposed to all elements.
As well as food, water and shelter, I feel that it is important to have love. Love of a family member or a friend. Being lonely must be such a terrible feeling. It is for this reason that I feel that Love is necessary for life. At birth, without love a baby may be abandoned and left to die. Love is essential.
It is also essential that throughout our lives we have fun; we enjoy every single second and don't let anything get us down. We have all seen the pictures on the news where children in Africa are starving; they have no clean water and little shelter. Some live in fear of being raped by soldiers, the very people who are meant to be protecting them. They live in environments where Aids is commonplace through sexual transmission. Yet they are always smiling. No matter what happens they look happy. They value their lives despite being constantly surrounded by death.
Now let's compare these images with the things you see every day. People rush around and never really look happy. In richer countries, people have designer clothes and shoes, TV's, pretty much anything we want we can buy. I was shopping the other day and I heard about 6 people saying they needed a new top or a pair of new shoes. I wonder how many of those people actually needed the things they bought. Have the items they purchased made any difference at all in their day to day lives? I didn't think so.
Until I started writing this article and reading it back to myself, I felt that clean drinking water, food and shelter were the most important thing in life, but remember those African children smiling and dancing despite having very little food, dirty drinking water and having to share their house' with their whole extended family. These things are vital for survival to live but evidently not necessary for life.
I now think that all that is necessary is an enjoyment of life. We need to enjoy every second of what we do; we need to try new things that scare us. We need to use those in poor countries as examples and take every day as it comes and learn enjoy life.