At home, you tend to be dependent on parents;
Away-from-home, you tend to be dependent on friends.
Uh, ain't not trying to translate it from the the Chinese sayings of
“在家靠父母,出外靠朋友”.
but was trying to say it's a tendency to be dependent instead of being independent when there's always somebody for you~
Granted, it's always good to have somebody to count on whenever you need one the most, but when there's no one for you to count on, how are you going to cope with the "
I-am-at-the-loss-what-to-do-next" drama?
A story of three years ago - 27th of June 2009 :-
I remembered the day whereby my parents indeed let a van to fetch me all along from my hometown to my beloved uni. That time, I just couldn't imagine if I was asked to come all by myself without my parents, as I had never well-prepared to be independent yet. *Shame?Lame?*
But then after everything was settled down, with no parents by my side, I have to face things all by myself. Dramatic change huh?
There. The learning process begins.
I have quite a high expectation on myself, yet I gotta admit that I was (or suppose used to be "I am") having minor DPD
(Dependent Personality Disorder) sometimes...
However, living about 200 miles distant from the HSH is a powerful factor that could greatly and mentally alter you.
Time flies...
Sometimes, I just hate to be one of it as I prefer to have a company by my side when doing something, but gradually and eventually I would have learned (so much) and have grown up (enough) to take over things on my tod.
Courage. Initiative. The values that I need to extract from others, somewhere and use on me myself.
Note: being independent is different from being a loner...
Photo credit to Jonas Fornerod in his Alone's photography series.