Tuesdays with morrie!

In the movie that we watched in class, tuesdays with morrie, which was, by the way, a fantastic movie,  but sooo sad!, morrie talked about how people are so independent and strive to succeed on their own, when it is really within human nature to depend on others! People don't realize that without other people, they would be nothing! People take care of you, love you, make you happy, teach you, connect you to other people and opportunities... the list is endless! but most just dont seem to want to say they rely on others. people are afraid of this dependence because they think that independence is equivilant to being powerful, which is not necessarily the case! In fact, you are more powerful when you depend on others because the more you depend on others the more likely you are to succeed. Yes, independence is good for self confidence and overall having some ability to take care of yourself, for instance when you move out of your parent's house, but what's so bad about relying on your parents until you are ready? That is dependence right there, getting the help you need to succeed, prosper and be happy. Or how, for another example, an alchoholic who won't go to rehab because they insist they dont need help... what is wrong with needing help to solve your problems and move forward? Yeah, some things you can do on your own, which is great, but for the most part at one point or another you have to depend on someone else. Therefore, it does bother me when people think they can do every single thing in life on their own, because whether they like it or not, they can't succeed alone. 

This week in class we talked a lot about differences between cultures. For instance, how something that is normal in our society can be completely rude and disrespectful in another culture. Its kinda cool if you really sit and just htink about how distant countries are from eachother can really effect how different their cultures are. Even just within the state of illinois, not many miles apart, are the suberbs of chicago. Even these tiny distances between each of the suberbs create pretty large differences with the people in each suberb. For instance, there are stereotypes for many of the schools in our area. Buffalo Grove high school is said to be less wealthy while the Stevenson kids are spoiled brats who have "Mcdonalds" in their school. Its insane how these two schools are literally in the SAME area! and yet they have completely different images and reputations, when in reality, the people at BGHS are just normal people like us...