Since times gone past revolutions great have been fought for freedom and independence. Yet there is not one successful nation, organisation or person that survives without collaboration.
Then what is independence and what is dependence and why is dependency viewed so poorly these days?
Stephen Covey writes about this vastly in his book 'Seven Habits....'
Till you haven't experienced dependency you can't be independent and independence isn't the be all and end all. A higher value is interdependence... a healthy dependence and an enjoyment of a healthy dose of freedom, counter balanced, is what is the aim of human life.
Till you don't prove yourself to be dependable you can't be interdependent. You should prove worthy of people's dependence. This takes me to another point.
No job is too big or small. Whether it be cleaning vessels for which many don't get paid or sweeping or a plush executive's job or being a railway engineer or anything, those that perform their labour with a spirit of service enjoy respect and love.
Rabindranath Tagore said, quote unquote, "I slept and wanted life to be joy. I woke and found that service is joy."
So this concept of independence is sullied. There is really no true freedom in a symbiotic association and without a healthy synergistic symbiotism there is no love.
So seek not independence but a life of service where all labour becomes joy. Seek to live in harmony without begrudging labour and be good to those who suffer. That is true interdependence. That is true freedom.
Seek and you shall find.
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