One Threat to Personal Freedom

 I'm currently serving a welfare and self-reliance mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It's perfect for me because I have always had strong feelings about the importance of being self-reliant. This quote expresses one of the reasons why I feel it is so important to do what we can to be self-reliant. 

"Man cannot be an agent unto himself if he is not self-reliant. . .  Whenever we get into a situation which threatens our self-reliance, we will find our freedom threatened as well. If we increase our dependence. we will find an immediate decrease in our freedom to act." —Marion G. Romney, "The Celestial Nature of Self-reliance, Ensign, November 1982, p. 91

We sometimes find ourselves in situations that we are unable to handle without help, and it is wonderful to have help available. But our goal should always be to become self-reliant as soon as possible. As we do so, we are able to be the ones to provide the help and that is an awesome feeling!