Independence can mean a lot of different things. To some people it is the freedom to think and feel how they want. For others the ability to go wherever they want and for others it can be as simple as being able to tie their own shoe laces or make a cup of tea. Independence and equally dependence come in so many different guises and mean so many different things to different people that it is often a subject that we don’t really think about. That is until it forces itself into your consciousness and parades around shouting “look at me, look at me, bet you can’t catch me”, and the thing is often you can’t. It doesn’t matter how it rears its head, whether it’s in relation to a parent or grandparent or whether it affects you directly, once independence begins to slip away it is so hard to get it back.
