Introduction of being independent

Independence can be a very personal thing! You must decide how to be independent and what independence means to you. It doesn’t mean you will leave alone and it’s not just about where you live. Independence includes good decision-making skills and learning about the areas in your life where you can take charge!

Understanding Interdependence

Independence doesn’t mean you have to be alone and make decisions by yourself. Something that’s really important to know is this:
We are all INTER-dependent. What does that mean? It means no one has to be on their own without any help or support. Our ultimate goal should be interdependence. That means having the drive to tackle our goals alone, but also having the wisdom to ask for helps when we need it.
We all need some support from friends and family to get to where we are going, to reach our goals, and to get a little help when we’ve dug ourselves into a hole! So you can be independent and interdependent at the same time. Hey, a support system is one thing that makes being independent a lot easier.
Interdependence ultimately means that:

• You can be independent and still ask for help.
• You can be independent and still have someone support you to make decisions.
• You can be independent and still rely on others to see you through a tough time.
• You can be independent and still share your good times, good fortune, and important events with friends, family, and others.

Knowing it's Important

Most of us want to be more independent some day. Just about every teen at The Youth hood has talked about moving out by there own and having their own place. But one thing we’ve learned is that we set choices so that we can choose among what is good for us.
Having a safe, comfortable, and convenient place to live makes life easier, like finding a good job, making friends, and having involvement in your community. Understanding all these things that we go into living independently is the key.

Making Decisions

There are a lot of decisions you have to make if you want to be independent. That means you have to think about and explore a lot of ideas -- things like where to live, whether or not to live with someone else, whether or not your job can support you. It’s easy to take this stuff for granted when you’re growing up and your parents take care of things. But becoming independent means you have to start making decisions about these things. So you have to start learning skills for good decision-making. Makes sense, doesn’t it?
But how do you learn to make good decisions? There are lots of ways to make decisions:

• You can guess and hope you are right (not good).
• You can ask someone else and then do what they say (Now, why would you want to do that?).
• You can ask for advice from a bunch of different people and then try to pick the answer that sounds right (getting a little better).
• You can talk it over with someone you trust (good idea).
• You can practice with decisions that aren’t too important so you can start to feel more confident (great idea).
• You can talk it over with someone, list the ideas that sound the best, do some role playing, then pick the best solution based on your information gathering (okay, this sounds excellent).
• You can just sit there and let the world pass you by and let others make all the decisions for you (if you picked this answer, we have some serious work ahead of us).

Having a Disability

So you have a disability? That doesn’t mean you can’t live independently or be independent in other areas of your life. Many young adults with disabilities choose their own apartments. Some young adults are even buying houses, townhouses, or condominiums because they planned ahead!
At The Youth hood, lots of teens with disabilities live independently in their own places by themselves or with roommates. Some live independently but are still at home with their families.
Being independent isn’t easy. You need to work hard to make things happen. If you plan ahead, get help with your planning, and make sure you have a plan for the support you need, you can make it happen!

Facebook accounts held hostage

Wonder why how odd you can't access your facebook?

As a user of this social friend network “Facebook”, I do get the occasional I do read complaints from my friend list history most recent section), for one reason or another, are experiencing errors, disconnections, slow server response, and etc, when they try to access their accounts. But it's never been anything like this on past months or weeks. Now, the community is facing a threat of having their account deleted or can’t be access. Facebook tech team is working on the possible reasons why accounts unintentionally deleted. So there's an argument to be made that users shouldn't be complaining about something they don't pay for. But that's an argument that many of the people who have come to rely on Facebook as a channel of communication simply they won’t understand.

Whether the string of complaints is assured or not, Facebook hasn't disclosed anything about the issue of maintenance to be extended to cope up to all users expectations to the company.

Micheal Jacksons remix by Sam Tsui

His name is SAM TSUI, absolutely amazing! no words to describe. No critic, how great is this video, an amazing work. The way he mix all Micheal Jackson's songs. I watched this video like 20 times. DEFINITELY SAME GUY who is singing. He is really good. He will be a real famous singer if he want to. Not that he is not famous right now about this video swirling around the net. The quality of the voice and the stage performance make him sensational.

Love is powerful than hate

Love and hate are the strongest opposites in our divided thinking. Why then unhappy love often turns into hatred and ruin relationships? A person who is in love loves everyone. This overwhelmingly feeling can change the radical world. A person in hate becomes a huge violent force. It drives to an abyss of destruction.

Love is more powerful than hate because, as it was in the song, love can lead to hate, whereas hate will never, even literally, produces love. Love is more powerful because it gives birth to new challenges. A new positive challenge, love changes a person. It enriches the world, extends all boundaries, enhances opportunities, brightens up friendships, and deepens emotions. A person in love has a specific aura, a kind of energy that is given off, scattered in all directions, all those love stories, powerful in their complex feelings and emotions.

But love will break away. It will vanish. So powerful to vanish, or love never will go away. Love's components are passion, and commitment, with their variations. Complete love that balances them all is rare. If Romeo and Juliet had lived longer, would they have loved each other with commitment? I have doubts. Love is powerful because it can transform people. It is, in fact, a transforming process of relationships, in which closeness remains stable.

Who does lived to hate? Love is powerful because it directs us, and makes our entity meaningful. Hate invites loneliness, but love denies it. Hate ruins personality, but love builds ego identity. Hate results in acts of violence, but love leads to acts of kindness. Hate destroys, but love will create. Hate is war, but love is peace. Hate is bad, but love is good. Hate is revenge, but love is construction. Hate is meaningless, but love has purpose. It is not possible "to love to hate". It is consistent; "love" will give birth to "love". That's why love is powerful than hate.

Thought for today

If God pays you $1 for every kind word you speak & takes away $1 for every unkind word you say, would you then be rich or poor?