Independence: It is the feeling of being free from something. Independence is to detach from something you're bound to. Freedom in its true sense can mean so much more than independence.
The kind of lives we live, in a fast-paced world like ours has made us overly dependent on many factors. Which is exactly why we feel bound to something, someone or one particular activity. This doesn't help us bring to light who we really are. Somewhere it's hiding the true face of the individual, his/her values, beliefs and mannerisms.
In order to discuss the words freedom and independence one question ponders over my mind : Do we feel free?
Anything that we do, we must realize that it should always be our own decision. Any activity we perform must make us feel liberated, open and free.
Most of us are still questioning many aspects in our lives. We don't know whether we will make the ideal choices in terms of careers, activities, most of our lifestyle choices and decisions. Due to this, we rightly seek help from individuals, friends, family and elders.
In this process of just taking help from someone, we are often subconsciously allowing them (an external factor) to make our decisions.
This same feeling makes us feel attached, answerable and most often helpless. When we are stuck with some tasks, we feel the need to take advice and blindly follow what others are doing.
This feeling of dependency may pose a serious problem for us, as individuals we may feel like we don't have a personality of our own and instead of being motivated by others around us we feel jealous, demotivated and just anxious with the successes of others.
All this doesn't mean that when you take help from others- you are wrong. It just means that maybe you should keep the ultimate decision-making power still very much in your own control.
Being able to make our own choices and being on our own will really help us become our true selves, have our own identity and take a stand for ourselves.
Which is why, I ask again - Do we really feel free?
Think and think again. Together let's find ourselves before we dive deep into dependency.
With this thought, wishing everyone a Happy Independence Day from the SYNC family!
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