Dependency is Weakness

Marium Rizvi
2 min readJun 30, 2024

Why is dependency a weakness?

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Dependency is a sign of weakness, which gives you more strength to become weaker — Uzma Akhtar Ashrafi

We all are weak and always need someone to rely on. Sometimes depending on others too much hurts in ways we don’t even imagine.

Unexpected things happen when we rely on people around us. We see the true colors or reality of people when they see us depending on them.

It’s not a bad thing to depend on someone you love, family, or friends but everything that goes extreme becomes toxic for us.

Identifying the signs of dependency is important for us to be independent, confident, and stronger in life.

Being independent helps us to fight the challenges life throws at us.

Dependency can be defined as someone else making decisions in our lives, handling our problems, and taking care of us.

We don’t realize that we have become too dependent on someone and it starts to affect our life slowly — we stop trusting our thoughts without assurance of others.

We think we can’t do anything without the help of others which stops us from growing…

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