Independence or Interdependence: What is true?

I remember on one occasion a teacher who explained the interdependence and mentioned that sometimes there were people who assured with total conviction that He had become alone Because they could have been honest and hardworking people after a difficult childhood, or after many attempts to progress and somehow the doors were closed, they obtained its objective. In some ways it is true that without that effort apparently T it may not have been as well.

Are we really independent?

But are we really independent?, we can perhaps see that from one side of the coin we can achieve economic independence and not depend materially on anyone, emotionally we believe that we are free independent in the handling of our affections and decisions, and if there is somehow independence from this point of view.

On the other side of the coin we find that despite being economically and emotionally independent of our close beings, we generate dependence at the same time on our work, on the neighbors of the new place we moved or on our friends who remain close even when apparently We no longer depend on anyone.

But is it true that we depend at all times on a large number of people ? ... the reality is that yes, independence works from a fairly partial point of view of things, what really exists is interdependence, we always remain dependent on something or someone, this assessment does not simply fail.

we remain interdependent at all times

For example, when we eat a cupcake in the dessert, the preparation of it required experts in preparing bread, people who deliver the flour to the restaurant, people who clean and have all the necessary containers and ingredients ready for preparation, fruit suppliers and sugar, people who clean the place and the table where we enjoy food, people who helped us park the car when we arrived, the person or people who would accompany us at the meal arrived, who filled us with the gas tank to transport us, that the bathing water provider did not have any inconvenience ... because we do not seem so independent in that sense ... in fact we are quite dependent or interdependent .

And what if we analyze internally how independent we are, somehow we depend on sleeping well to perform efficiently in our daily activities, we have to depend on our mood to cope with work difficulties, we must control our need to eat if we have much to do and we can not buy something immediately, we must hope that our close ones have a good day to receive a good reception when returning from our work ... in fact once again we do not seem so independent.

we interact directly and indirectly all the time

After analyzing in detail and it is worth mentioning that everything that happens to us serves us to do so, we can conclude that in an equivocal and partial way we consider ourselves independent, but ultimately we are dependent springs, we need to interact with each other directly or indirectly all the time, to live.

If we extend the analysis to the cause and effect we can also deduce that we depend on generating positive actions to experience well-being and avoid the negative ones that lead us to suffering.

the value of thanks

In the end, we can understand that interdependence arises the importance and relevance of gratitude, its healthy power that generates countless blessings in our lives, because at all times what comes to us is cause for gratitude, simply because in an action as insignificant as It seems that a large number of known and unknown beings intervened, contributing consciously or unconsciously to our well-being.

So there is nothing more to recognize that all the conditions and circumstances that arise in our lives are at all times a huge reason to thank everyone and everything that is around us, and that they contribute dependently and voluntarily all the time in favor of our well-being and satisfaction.

AUTHOR: Pilar V zquez, collaborator of the great family of the White Brotherhood