Pensive: Learning Self-Reliance

Whether we want a friend to accompany us to the library or a sibling to bargain with the shop-keeper, most of us are extremely reliant on others in simple day-to-day matters. We depend on them so much, that without their assistance we simply give up the idea of doing a certain job. I know many people out there who wouldn't go get food at a wedding-dinner alone!

While the quality of being self-reliant is usually intrinsic, it really isn't that difficult to develop it in oneself. All one needs is a realization of being one's own 'caterer'. Apply the Do-It-Yourself philosophy. In terms of something that we come across daily, I'd say 'Google it up before going to others for help.'