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A Specific Situation When Someone Assisted Me Was on My English Personal/reflective Essay

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1.A specific situation when someone assisted me was on my English personal/reflective essay.

2. A specific situation when I assisted someone else was when my mother needed help with her homework.

3. A specific situation when I made assisting someone else more important than my own success and happiness was

4. When someone asks me for assistance I usually feel gladly to do so.

5. When I think of asking someone else for assistance I usually feel reluctant to do so and try to manage the situation myself first.

6. What usually gets in the way of my asking for help is my pride and independent state of mind.

7. If I often asked other people for assistance I feel the same as if I solved the situation independently.

8. If I joyfully gave assistance to others I feel an overwhelming feeling of benevolence within.

9. If I gratefully accepted assistance from others without in feeling of self-doubt.

10. One goal that I could use assistance with today is help with deciding on my future career.

Write about what you discovered by completing the sentence stems: Is your typical relationship to others 1) DEPENDENT, 2) CODEPENDENT, 3) INDEPENDENT, or 4) INTERDEPENDENT? Describe how you have most often related to others in the past and how you intend to relate to others in the future.

After completing the sentence stems I discovered that I am majority independent and somewhat interdependent. I believe that an individual is mostly responsible for the desired outcome of any situation/experience in life. Independence is very essential in individual success/progress. You're not going to always have a codependent by your side with daily occurrences. I always try to do things independently before asking for help from others. I also know that it's nothing wrong with being interdependent to a degree. Then again, a good interdependent relationship is built on a foundation of true independence. It's a saying that I ran across, "Private Victory precedes Public Victory."

In the past I related to others in an independent manner. Independence was forced early throughout my life, so it engineered that mind-state. I've always the "If you want something done, do it yourself" type of person. I strongly dislike putting the fate/outcome of things in someone else hands. I would like to develop a more interdependent mind- state to relate with other in the future. Success is based on independent appliance but also the resources available to an individual. You have

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