Independence...

What is Independence? What is independence?

This phrase kinda reminds me of a popular (my fav) number of metallica where a young american asks his father... What is democracy? and the guy replies ... It something about young boys killing each other.

Strange??? You must listen to track to understand it...

Getting back to Independence...
I believe, the term has varied meanings to different people. Some interpret it as just the absence of oppression while others attach a broader meaning to it.

No matter what it means do you really think that we follow it in the truest form???

Every year we hear lot of rhetoric speeches made by seemingly learned people about the freedom struggle and how some of our "so called" parents of the nation (dint want to make seperate references to the fathers, mothers, grandfathers etc..,) relieved us from the autocratic rule of the British. But do they understand that we aren't yet completely independent???

Independence in the truest form for me is total self reliance on one's own resources i.e.., living all by ourselves without interfering much with the nature (environment) around. If you've started guessing where am heading then you definetly are one of those who can think beyond these virtual boxes of countries and their independence.

Consider this, the narrow minded socio-eco-political policies of different nations are causing more distress to the who mankind now than they ever did. A country needs to show its supremacy on the others, it goes on destroying nature under the pretext of democracy and independence.

Can we sustain such an independence???

We need to understand that beyond the narrow motives of our individual nations there exists a bigger responsibility that we need to shoulder, that of preserving this planet. Because, if we don't do that, no matter how hard we scream that we are independent we won't survive a while longer...

Try to answer the question at this link:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20060704195516AAnrdOD