Triangle of Needs

          I am at the park sitting outside in the 50 degree weather and writing on my blog. What month and season does that sound like? You might think Spring and March but you would be wrong. It is the middle of December and it is still Fall, later Fall, but still Fall. It is 2 weeks until the first day of Winter and it is feeling like this. Amazing because last winter it wasn’t like this at all at this time. 
Anyways, enough about how strange the weather is being in AR.
           I wanted to write about something that I thought about this morning while I was taking a test for my job. Well, actually studying for it. I have studied the Maslow's Hierarchy (Triangle) of Needs for years because my major is Child Development so I needed to know that somewhat. 

The order of the triangle is: 

-Physiological-Basics like food, shelter, water, 
-then feeling (safe)-health and people around you, 
-then feeling (love and belonged)-sense of connection and trust, 
-then good (self esteem)-confidence, achievement, respect, and sense to be self, 
-and last, having (self actualization)-creativity, purpose, and acceptance. 
               
            Well, I was wrong about somewhat with my job I have now and hopefully will keep working in the field, I really do need it. I can see it through the children’s life and in the order that it is too. They could come in very behind and we would need to start at the bottom with shelter or they could start at needed to feel love and belonging. Either way, it is strange how real it is for every child. I mean you could “label” where the child is at and what are the other things that they need from you and what they could work on. I need to think about that more when a new child comes in. Need to think where they could be or are and them help them reach other areas of it. 
                 In the school teacher setting, I knew it was there but couldn’t see it has big as I can now. Of course, public school you get a lot of the same children sadly but I guess I am more focused on it with where I am because really that is all you can focus on and nothing more. I think it is strange how a person could see that and come up with it in the same order that it happens in a child’s life. 
I was just thinking before the test how something you thought you would barely use, you use all the time now. It is strange because most people haven’t heard about the triangle granted I had to take Child Development class 3 times in a row in college but now I know the reason way. :) I was also thinking how I should already have this memorized in the back of my mind and I almost do. Maybe another class or two? Lol! 
                   Not only do teachers and parents use it for the children in their care but one person can use it for themselves. I will admit I need help on the self help and depending on your life season you might need a place to live or a way to feel loved and belonged so you can have better self-esteem. I also believe that no matter how old we get that triangle is life in itself. That is who God made us to be and in new situations, here and there, we need to rethink it. It isn’t just for the  children. Like I said we are all humans so we all need this if this is psycialogocaily and how we are really made. Why be scared of it? 
Sometimes it is strange because things whether physically or emotionally can keep you from having these things whether you are in the middle of anxiety or depression or another sickness. We need to fix that so we can feel that we are somewhat on the triangle. We could live “normal” lives and still something can be wrong with us on the inside. We can have the first 2 but yet lack of the other 3. It is pysicalolgocail and it is hard to understand but the more I look into it and have to deal with different things along the same lines it is interesting. I want to learn more about it and how to handle things with it. I could so study the triangle and work with it somehow and be happy with that. I wonder why even drs. that you go to if you were sick with the flu don’t talk about this or have anything about it in their office. 
                     To wrap it all up, it is just neat to see that something is out there that if we really need to see how we are made, then we can but the truth be told. God made us the way He did and no matter how hard we try to figure it out, we’ll never find out how. This triangle is just a little piece of the puzzle on paper to help us see what areas we need to talk to God about. It is our job to find out when and then it is God’s job, way, and Timing to make it healthily. Just another way to fully rely on Him. We might know what we are like but we never know what is ahead in or planned for our future. We are still God’s servants in His Bigger Plan to save the World.