We need families to love us. We need friends to teach us how to care about other people. We need someone special in our lives to share ourselves with and with whom we can be intimate. We need to be out there in the world, so even our very presence can raise attitudes. Perhaps we have focused too much on independence.
Human beings are interdependent .
We always have been. We always will be. It's almost as if I had to do the things I have done just to prove the common person wrong. Told I'd never marry and have children, I did. Told I'd never do anything productive for a living, I did.