Yes, independence is weakness. Being a lone wolf is exhausting and anyone doing it will defiantly run out of juice (physical, emotional, mental or even spiritually). The independent person will eventually run out of puff and when they do, will fall to their knees and eventually ask for help. In that moment they will realise they cant do life on their own.
We are here to love and support each other as well as ourselves. Self is important, yet service is the trump card. If we serve and support the people in our lives and work and we also share ourselves and be human with others (the trials, dramas, joys and highs) they will be there for us and vice versa for our whole life.
As for financial independence, to make enough money to be financially independent one must create enough value to OTHERS willing to pay for that value. So anyway you look at it… we are bound to humanity and it is bound to us. Being on your own, doing your own thing doesn’t get you very far. Nature and life has a way of sorting that out for people whether they want it or not.
I have a saying, as you well know. No-one ever becomes great and stays great all by themselves.
Is it right?