Interdependence Rough Draft

Interdependence
*I will come up with a better title for my final [:*
By: Czarina Caberto

Have you ever felt like you couldn’t complete a task without people by your side? As if, doing something would be totally worthless if you were to do something all alone and you the only way to fulfill something is by depending on others? Well, that’s called interdependence. This word is usually mistaken by “independence.” If you were to be “independent”, then you can do everything by yourself without even a little it of help. In life, many of us depend on others. Whether it is at home, school, etc.

Interdependence involves lots of cooperation. For example, in English class, we have a project called KC3 in which we all have individual responsibilities and subtopics. If none of us did not complete our task or did our research for our subtopic, there would be nothing to put on our webpage, nothing to talk about in our video, nothing to show on the slides of our Power Point, etc. Basically, there would be no info to talk about! What a disaster! Luckily, we all did our research. So now, we DO have something to talk about and we can all finish up our tasks.

If one person were to be interdependent on another, it affects that person greatly. Their outcomes would go up or down together. Whenever they are in a situation in which there is a positive accomplishment among their outcomes, the chance among their outcomes are enhanced radically. Many of us test for interdependence by asking ourselves this question: “Is assistance really necessary”?

According to my little cousin, milk doesn’t come from cows but they come from stores. She’s never seen a cow being milked, but she has been to a store with her mother to buy milk, so in her world, milk does come from stores. Purchasing is a major activity in our daily lives, especially in adults. In fact, if there were to be some sort of crisis in our world that would prevent us from being able to purchase daily necessities, such as toiletries and food, then that would be one unsettling experience because we are the consumer of these goods, not the producers. So mainly, we are interdependent toward these things to keep ourselves content.

Whenever I undergo interdependence, things that happen usually go under “positive interdependence.” That is because I usually depend on those who I feel closer to, like my family. Those that are closer actually KNOW what we want and what we need. This is important in understanding interdependence because if someone were to depend on just anybody, then they wouldn’t really understand what they desire. Their outcome would most likely go under “negative interdependence” because what they get is probably not what they wished for.

Since interdependence is such a huge thing in our lives, it has helped in bringing us closer to each other. The relationships we develop are molded through interdependence and the use of it. We should bring interdependence to our advantage because of the positive outcomes it has brought us.