Do We Put Too Much Emphasis On Self-Relience

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These days, independence is taught to everyone, everywhere, and it seems like it might be heading towards causing a major problem in society. There has been a lot of controversy going around about independence and whether it is too emphasized in our world. It has been taught to be a sign of maturity, but it really should be taught that “we need to be mature and unselfish enough to recognize our interdependence.” It is true that excessive dependence can be a sign of weakness instead of maturity but excessive independence can be a sign of isolation. Even though independence can sometimes make you feel empowered, sometimes it’s over used in the hope of feeling even more empowered. For example, if you are in a relationship and you are overly independent, it can push the other person away or make them feel less important to the relationship. It could even cause the feeling of loneliness. Independence can cause major issues if overly used; some might even become depressed because of it. I recently read an article about a girl that was diagnosed as depressed, and she states the reason to be because of over independence. It caused her to feel lonely and isolated from the outside world. She cut everyone off because she wanted to feel that independency. Eventually she was afraid of anything but isolation; afraid to even go into the city. She forced herself to break down emotionally and not talk to anyone about it, and she forced herself to have no one there for her because she didn’t want to show any type of dependency. Sometimes it is hard to admit that we need other people in our lives because independence is so emphasized. Dependence has been taught to be a sign of weakness in our society, but everyone needs to be somewhat dependent sometime in their life. People need family or even love in their life to support and help them when they need it or else loneliness and
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