You are never by yourself

There is a North American Value that in which I'm sure everyone in North America has heard:
"I can go it alone. I don't need help. I'll struggle through on my own, and I'll be a better person for it."

North Americans always have this value where they think that later on in their life, they can and will handle things on their own, but let me be the first to say...it is impossible. This is what's called the "Rugged Individualism." No matter where you go or what you do there is some sort of help that comes or came along with it.

This way of approach to life is not that bad, but must be realized that rugged individualism exists. Most people in North America do try to accept this concept of being a totally independant person, but don't realize that they cannot live without contact. People need to learn that INTERDEPENDANCE is made up of the past experiences with people, social relation iwth other people and an annonymous source of other help and support.

Interdependance automatically is within a person since their childhood, decision-making has been made by the help of one's parents teaching them right from wrong. As the years go by, the young child grows older to "make their own decisions," but it is really the growth and development of their sense of judgement guided by adults. The words, influence, and actions of the adult will forever stay in the young until it is passed on to the next generation. Therefore it is not independance when making a decision if someone from the past has helped you to develop the sense of right from wrong, but rather an interdependance between the decision maker and their past.

Interdependance is also made by other social activities of a person with other people; common actions such as solving a huge jigsaw puzzle is developed by routine or experience. People learn from their past in their experiences, and do one action instead of another the next time a similar situation occurs. However, when a person experiences a certain situation, it is almost always that the problem would be so difficult, other people would have needed to get involved and assist to accomplish the setted goal. Now when the present comes and a similar even comes, one would know what to do based on experience, having other people think that they can do it individually themselves, but really was done with the help of other people, causeing the sense of interdependance.

One source of Interdependance that occurs with any person is one that is annonymous to a person's awareness. for example a person going into an airport. There are numerous people there to help you out. One person cannot do security reasons on their on, they need the assistance of a police officer or volunteers that work in the industry. It is their job to help people when they're in need; which is why we can say that no one really recognizes these sources of help that defies the term of individualism, but rather interdependance.

God created humans to be social people. It is part of ourself, made in God's image that we are to be interacting with one another, and need to be part of a social group or community that can really relate other people with our own. It is never possible for one single person to live their life individually. Even God is always there for each and every one of His children to assist them when they need help.

In conclusion, we are always interdependant, not independant. You never do things by yourself, there is always another person that must have helped out, whether it be in the past, or in the present. there must have been some way that lead you to who you are now and how you act. That is why it is important to love, honour, and respect your parents and family because they are the ones who taught you how to make decisions, which now seems a piece of cake in most events in life.