Independence – It’s Truest Form

What is independence? What is it? Not some pathetically amended definition that we’ve concoctedover the years through our cultural revisionism or politically correct notions. Not an agenda-driven definition skewed by a narcissistic sense of entitlement, or shaped by the slanted idea that independence is a right verses a privilege. Not some distorted facsimile that is covertly designed to serve our purposes at the expense of others. None of that.

What is independence? It may be that real independence is best experienced by not having had it so that we both understand and cherish it when we do. Maybe it’s realizing that the exercising of our rights ends at the point it intrudes on the rights of another. Independence might be understood as we begin to understand that it is to be exercised for the benefit of others over our own benefit. It must be embraced as a privilege handed to us by millions who themselves never lived long enough to embrace that privilege. Maybe we should ask, what is independence?