Personal Independence Research Paper

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We all have freedom when it comes to how we decide to live our lives, but if you chose to live it the way you want you must take personal responsibilities for your actions. There are many values and challenges when it comes personal independence. While there might be more challenges than there are values it all requires the same amount of responsibility. The main challenges and values to personal independence are making own decisions, respect, and higher expectations. With personal independence you make decisions that have never had to be made before. Making decisions can be a great thing because personal independence allows you to choose what you want and not worry if it affects someone else because with being independent you are the only one the …show more content…

As mentioned earlier, there are many values and challenges to personal independence but one of the main ones is making your own decision. Even though going independent sounds hard and a little tough, there are also many values that come along with it. Going independent means you gain more respect. When you start taking in the full aspects of personal independence people start to give you more respect due to you being able to take on such a big responsibility. But having more respect from people also brings on more values and challenges. One value of having respect is that people see you differently. They see you as someone who is responsible and someone who can get things done, and that is a great feeling. Nevertheless having more respect also has challenges. When people have more respect for you they start to have higher expectations. With having higher expectations from someone they start to not expect anything less than their expectations. This can become very hard to maintain. In summary, when going on the path of personal independence, you with start to be respected, but even respect has many values and

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