tuesdays with morrie and dependency

Tuesdays with Morrie wasn't just a movie about the devotion of a student to his teacher, but underneath that, Morrie taught us lessons about life that we could never find in any textbook, one thing he discussed was dependency.

Humans are the most dependent creatures on this earth, the minute we are born we depend on other people to do things such as feed, dress and bathe us, while a baby horse for example can run on its own just minutes after coming out of the womb. As we get older though we learn to do things on our own like walk, eat, bathe and dress ourselves-- through these things we gain the American value of independence. Our culture often teaches us that in the long run, most people let us down.. this is magnified through divorces, breakups, lay-offs and rejections. We learn to be more independent and we fear moving backwards towards the ways of children who can't do anything for themselves.

Although in some situations I am dependent, mainly on my parents. Although I have the ability to go buy my own groceries, I depend on my parents to do it for me, and when I need a poster board for a project last minute, my mom is already at walgreens asking me if I want white or lime green. It does bother me how dependent I am on my parents, especially because I'm going to be moving out in 5 months, and I need to learn how to do things for my own and not rely on people to always do them for me.