LBJ

The topic of the story “Self Reliance” is being dependent on yourself, and learning how to break free from other people’s expectations and obligations, developing your potential as an individual person. When you compare this with our two values, being caring and being patient, you wouldn’t find many similarities, but if you read the author’s essay carefully you might realize that they are more present that you think. When we start becoming more independent and we start thinking by ourselves and not caring about what other people think of us and being able to decide by our own mind, we are actually showing and taking care of ourselves because in this essay it its expressed that being self reliant can free a man from many things, like other’s opinions, routines, consistency, and conforming. the author says that you should trust thyself, meaning you should care and value your own opinion and learn to accept it, which is a part of caring for yourself and deciding that being more individua