http://www.sablelitreviews.com/independence/ A Commentary of All Things Multicultural In Lit, Media and History Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.sablelitreviews.com/independence/comment-page-1/#comment-7622 Alex Jenson Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:23:38 +0000 http://www.sablelitreviews.com/?p=1564#comment-7622 I like this. Especially the part where you say that individualists are often seen as selfish. This is completely true. But the trouble is, that our society by its very nature, is a selfish society. By expressing a need to explore your inner self and not be pressured to conform to a family life, or even a relationship, you are pigeonholed as being 'selfish' when most of society is self-obsessed anyway! Ah the ironies of life. What it really means is that you have the foresight and the guts to look at a bigger picture than most people are seeing. Anyone who dares to strike out on their own usually, but not always, comes under heavy fire....but the heavy fire can make the ride a little more intense. I like this. Especially the part where you say that individualists are often seen as selfish. This is completely true. But the trouble is, that our society by its very nature, is a selfish society. By expressing a need to explore your inner self and not be pressured to conform to a family life, or even a relationship, you are pigeonholed as being ‘selfish’ when most of society is self-obsessed anyway! Ah the ironies of life.
What it really means is that you have the foresight and the guts to look at a bigger picture than most people are seeing. Anyone who dares to strike out on their own usually, but not always, comes under heavy fire….but the heavy fire can make the ride a little more intense.

]]> http://www.sablelitreviews.com/independence/comment-page-1/#comment-7585 G W Pickle Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:09:02 +0000 http://www.sablelitreviews.com/?p=1564#comment-7585 Very well said Laura. We should be individuals first. A person should be known as themselves, not someones spouce, parent or by what we do for a living. Our socity seems to place some occupations in higher esteem than others. Movie stars, recording artists, religious leaders, people who make extreemly large sums of money and elected officials appear to get perferred treatment in most cases. They also get a lot of unwanted attention and loss of privacy. I guess it's a trade off. It's what we accept and expect, Just like being alone. look at the number of stories and movies of one person trying to fix a single person up with another single person. They look at it as helping, others believe they're not. We hear of stories of spouse or child abuse, one spouse cheating on the other and sometimes even leading to murder. There are some who really do need someone in there life and there are those who don't. I think that each person should decide when its' time to either be alone or be with someone or group of people. I am married and I do love my wife, but she doesn't define who I am or I her. We had our own idenities before we married and we still have them. Our independence as well as our idenities are very important. We must work to ensure we keep it for as long as we can. One example is an injury that leads to loss of mobility. That injury can lead to loss of emotional and physical independence. The greatest loss is personal. that is one we must guard against losing. G W Pickle Very well said Laura. We should be individuals first. A person should be known as themselves, not someones spouce, parent or by what we do for a living. Our socity seems to place some occupations in higher esteem than others. Movie stars, recording artists, religious leaders, people who make extreemly large sums of money and elected officials appear to get perferred treatment in most cases. They also get a lot of unwanted attention and loss of privacy. I guess it’s a trade off. It’s what we accept and expect, Just like being alone. look at the number of stories and movies of one person trying to fix a single person up with another single person. They look at it as helping, others believe they’re not. We hear of stories of spouse or child abuse, one spouse cheating on the other and sometimes even leading to murder. There are some who really do need someone in there life and there are those who don’t. I think that each person should decide when its’ time to either be alone or be with someone or group of people. I am married and I do love my wife, but she doesn’t define who I am or I her. We had our own idenities before we married and we still have them. Our independence as well as our idenities are very important. We must work to ensure we keep it for as long as we can. One example is an injury that leads to loss of mobility. That injury can lead to loss of emotional and physical independence. The greatest loss is personal. that is one we must guard against losing.
G W Pickle

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