America was built upon the foundation of this one word: Independence. There is, however, a problem with this mentality. Everyone is dependent on one another. We need other people in our lives. There is no scenario where one person isn’t dependent on another. We should not be ashamed to hide that fact, because the reality is that everybody is dependent.
We are all familiar with the word independence. Independence means to be not be dependent. To be dependent is to rely on someone or something for something else, or to be ruled by another person or nation. The thirteen colonies were dependent on Britain. When the foundations for the United States were laid, they were based upon independence from Britain, and on equalityfrom birth, not independence from person to person. That said, we also have the freedom to attempt to be independent.
Every soul is dependent on another. Even in stories, settlers and pilgrims who were looking for independence and freedom by traveling to new lands were not independent. Did they not take stocks of food and other provisions from their own country? Did they not buy ships from their fellows? Did they not need tools to cut down trees to build their houses? Even Robinson Crusoe was dependent on others, and he was stranded. Did he manufacture his own gun? The reality is, nobody in the whole of mankind is truly independent.
No person can claim to be independent truthfully. Everybody has someone that they are dependent on. At the absolute least, everybody is dependent on their parents and on God for even existing in the first place.