Pursuing My Independence

“I am self-propelled; fueled from within. I appreciate people’s opinions, but I am not attached to them. I learned a long time ago that if I give them the power to feed me, I also give them the power to starve me.” -Dr. Steve Maraboli. When I read this quote I thought he was describing that no one can hold him back and he is going to be free. My question is what does it mean to be free? Does it mean not caring what others think about you? Or is it being free to accomplish your dreams with no regrets and nothing holding you back? Being free means different things to different people. In the poem “Caged Bird,” by Maya Angelou, she talks about two types of people one being caged and one being free. In his poem “Mother to Son,” Langston Hughes talks about there will bumps in the road of life, but you have to forge your path to be free. In the poem, “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost discusses the two roads a person can take, either you can be free and not care about other's opinions, or you can be trapped by everyone’s thoughts about you. You can be free by not caring about others opinion’s on you, but by making your own path. So will you choose to be free or will you choose to be dragged down by other’s opinions about you?

At first, I thought something was wrong with me, and that’s why I was bullied. I tried to change myself and when I couldn’t, I felt betrayed by my own emotions. It turned out that this person hadn’t trusted me, and that’s why he was mean to me. He had wanted to talk to my friend, Meadow, and he didn’t want me to know about it. The trouble started when he found out Meadow trusted me, while he didn’t. After that, I understood that I didn’t need to listen to things others said about me, and that it’s not worth it to worry about all the haters in my life. In sixth grade, when I found new friends that weren’t afraid to be themselves, I learned to let go and be myself, no matter what others thought. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not,” Oprah Winfrey once proposed. I know that that is true, and in this trouble, I used courage to find my integrity. Although the war didn’t resolve at first, I wasn’t discouraged by it anymore. Integrity is something that will help anyone fight a battle, and that is what I used to stay strong while I faced a dilemma.

I wanted to respond to this post due to fact that we have similar thoughts about independence. I have always been the one in my family to be strong and independent. I would never want to burden my family where they would have to do everything for me. If I can’t do normal things such as walking, talking and feeding myself life is not worth living. All of take so many things for granted. I appreciate all the wonderful privileges we have as a human being. Being able walk, talk, feed myself and breath every day is speechless.

From the Sugar Act to the Townshend Acts, colonists were getting zero say in Parliament despite their civil efforts. There was only one choice left- a choice that would set them on the road to independence. The colonists separated from Britain with good reason. They were getting no say in Parliament, the British had been killing many without reason in the Boston Massacre, and the distance between America and Britain is so large, that there was no sense in one controlling the other. The colonists were undoubtedly justified in becoming Patriots and seeking independence from Britain.

Thankfully Mr. John butler brought extra axes and rope sadly he didn't have any buckets so I went to go ask Tony Wilson if he had any bucket that we could use luckily he did we got really lucky.

Last year, I decided that I was going to take a major step towards adulthood and independence. During this time, conflict was constant in my household, and was typically left unresolved. This caused tension between my parents and I, which lead to an unhappy family. Thus, it was my choice to leave the home that I had, and to move in with my sister and my brother in law. This house was located in Albany which was a massive change from the small town of Wingdale that I had previously lived in. The Shaker school district, which I now was enrolled in, was approximately 600 people per grade, rather than the miniscule amount of 100 individuals that I was accustomed to. However, through this decision to leave home, I learned vital lessons and skills

As a military dependent, I have experienced adversity that the average person may never have to encounter. However, without these hardships, such as deployments and constantly moving around the country, I could not say that I would be the same person. For the better part of my life, I have been a caretaker, housekeeper, student, and sometimes the third parent. Although at first glance it seems overwhelming and near impossible to ask so much of an emerging adult, I have grown in confidence and I have a steady moral fiber as a result.

It was a bright sunny day and I was ready to play. I was on the playground at recess. It was in April. I was on the monkey bars when my friend told me to jump down and she would catch me. My 3rd grade self thought it was a good idea and jumped. When i jumped from the bar, she moved. I slammed into the ground. I learned from this experience that you can’t trust everybody, not even your closest friends. No matter how much you know a person, you never know when they could change just in a second. Even if she moved because she was scared, or she wanted me to hit the ground, it doesn’t matter. Through it all I learned that you can’t give your just to everybody.

Respect: Autonomy is related to the patient’s stated wishes and that his decision making capabilities has been extended to his surrogate. Although there is no apparent written advanced directive pertaining to the pacemaker, which is very common, there is likely a written note about the discussion with FNP Loras in 2005 (Buchhalter, 2014; Kramer, 2012). In both the conversation in 2005 and the pre-op conversation with Dr. Petty complete informed consent and right to refuse treatment should have been allowed (Kramer, Mitchell, & Brock, 2012)

Independence to me is the freedom to make my choices and take full accountability of the choices I make. I first realized my true independence in the summer of 2014 when I had the opportunity to spend two full months in Stockholm, Sweden visiting family. I had never before traveled by myself outside the tristate area, and let alone to Sweden. The reasons I wanted to travel to Sweden were mainly to see family, embrace new cultures, getting out of my comfort zone, and gain a new perspective in life.

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I slowly get off the plane, wishing I could go back to Bangladesh. I am going to miss the fourteen years I have spent there. Surprisingly, I’ll even miss the unclear foggy sky and the dreadfully slow traffic. My family wanted to get out of this corruption and move to a better place. They decided to go to a large country in North America called Canada.

Along with many other Zers, independence is my “thing”. Since I was a little kid, I’ve had to pave my own way through life. My older brother and sister were always competitive with each other, but I couldn’t do everything they were doing because I was younger; I stuck to playing dolls by myself instead of playing sports with my siblings. I don’t really play with dolls anymore; however, I do not want to go to Marquette University and major in business like my older siblings. To my parents dismay, I also dread having to do things other people want me to do. I am always being told to clean my room or to do the dishes, and the very fact that I’m being told what to do makes me not want to do it. This is also seen when I’m told I can’t do something,

     Graduating and getting out on your own is a difficult step to make. There are a lot of things that you have to take into perspective. The choices that you make when you get out of highschool believe it or not are crucial and life altering. Decisions that you have to make are ones like what you want your career to be, where you want to live, and a big decision is buying a house. In making these decisions you have to do a lot of research and things to be prepared. I did a lot of research in hopes of finding a career that I would like and three things that I could see myself doing was owning my own spa ($100,000 yearly salary), managing a spa($60,000 yearly salary), or being an

Independence! What is the meaning of this word? Some people have different thoughts, ideas, or notions of the word but we always hear our parents telling us, from a young age, what it is and we grow up wanting and striving for that “independence”. I remember when I was a teenager, I got into plenty of arguments with my mother about having friends over and the last thing she would always tell me after every argument, “Once you get your own place you can do whatever you want.” Right after that I would mutter and mumble to myself, with anxiousness, ignorance, and sometimes anger, “I can’t wait till I’m old enough to get my own place.” Little did know, I would soon be ingesting the harsh reality of my own words.