Why do we want to be independent, even though it means much greater burden of re

Question:

Why do we want to be independent, even though it means much greater burden of responsibility as well as risk?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: We want to be independent because it is the best alternative. Only who do not understand prefer to be dependent.

Ask yourself what is the opposite of independence. You may become dependent upon someone else. In life, there is no such a thing as a free lunch. You pay a price for this dependence, a price not obvious. Once you become wiser (to me, once you become aware of the price you pay), you fight for that independence. Of course, I do not include here the alliances we make thru our lives. Enough is to say that we enter those alliances with the eyes open, we are aware that we both give and take, and that the alliance is for mutual profit, not one-sided affair.

The second alternative is to become a parasite of someone else. Such cannot work in the long run. Eventually, the person either realizes the situation, seeks redress. Also, to keep the situation going, you would need far more effort than what is warranted by the profit.

You mentioned burden of responsibily and risk. It takes wisdom to realize that those things are minimized by independance. To be dependant only increases risk, it does not shift responsibility.