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According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, the basic requirements of the body needs to be satisfied first, before it set to go for the more complex needs. Poston (2009) in his article titled “An Exercise in Personal Exploration: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs” mentioned that “the behavior of any individual varies in the realm of patterns based on their ‘individual needs’”. As per Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, those needs are termed as “deficit needs” and “being needs”. Deficit needs include ‘basic needs’ as physiological, safety, psychological, and esteem needs; while on the other hand, being needs comprise self-fulfillment needs (cited in Poston, 2009). Safety needs, which are more psychological in nature, manifest any individual to feel secure and loved within their own boundaries of expectations. On the other hand, belonging needs which are under the heading of psychological needs as per Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (Figure 1), are also as important as safety and physiological needs. The sense and essence of belonging can be felt, understood, and prioritized when one is focused on building new and sustained relationship with others. Any human individual will seek to accomplish and achieve the ‘basic needs’ in order to maintain and sustain their daily routine life, while the ‘being needs’, on the contrary, are different from the ‘basic needs’ as they are required to satisfy the human individual from within, that is, to satisfy his or her internal self.
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