Igor K. (SEE) - striving for independence

I consider one of the important factors that helped me in my self-realization to be the fact that my parents made me independent from an early age and allowed me to solve many issues on my own. Where to go? What to do? Why? And so on — all these questions I was allowed to decide for myself.

What also pushed and motivated me to handle things independently was that my parents talked about it to others, raising and increasing my significance in the eyes of the people around us. “How is he handling this issue?” — “I don’t know, he doesn’t say.” “How so?” — “Well, he’s independent!” These were the very words that inspired me and pushed me toward decisive actions in life.