Monday, October 18, 2004

I had car trouble the other night and as "car illiterate" as I am, I tried to find a solution to my problem but as expected I failed. So I had to call 3 people to help me out. One didn't want to help me at all - had lots of things to do. The other one was very helpful but also didn't know what was wrong. The third one was helpful (was able to fix it actually) but not after a few unprintable words.
Having gone through this, I realized two things: one, that having a car is a responsiblity that I should learn to handle and two, that I have no one to depend on besides myself. Yes, it was wrong of me to learn only how to drive a car but not how to maintain it but that could be easily remedied. But learning how to depend only on myself may take a while. Honestly, it is bad really that having reached adulthood, I am still quite dependent on a lot of people on a lot of things. Maybe that is one of the negatives of having a closely-knit family - you get used to always having someone there to help you out whenever you have problems so you don't get to be fully independent. But that would all have to change. Maybe I called on the wrong people or at the wrong time but still I think I owe it to myself to learn how to stand on my own.