Interdependence, a word meaning to rely or depend on one another, is something everyone around the world experiences in their daily lives. We may not notice it, but everything tends to depend on each other each and everyday. We create great bonds with people, which we learn to understand their situations. We gain the same emotions of the person and empathize for them. Whether we learn to depend on each other or to understand each other's feelings, it makes each and everyone of us, realize how we value each other's lives and feelings. In my media class, we created a photoshop image that deals with both interdependence and empathy, which are our class theme. From there on I understood the meaning of these two words. Before, i came to high school, i didn't even know what these two words even meant.
Interdependence takes a big role to get assignments done. To me, it keeps the world going because we all depend on each other. Whether it's at work, school, home, or the store, interdependence is there. At school, interdependence is the "key" to projects. We all have roles in a group project and to get the job done, we need to rely on each other to do their share.
To feel true empathy, you have to have gone through the same situation as the person. For me, it's easy to relate to a friend or family member's situation. Empathy is one of the emotions everyone should experience in life.
In 7th and 8th grade, i played for my school's volleyball team. We had confidence in ourselves during practices and games. Our main strategy was to use teamwork and rely on each other to do whatever that was necessary to get the ball over the net. We lost most of our games in the tournament, but managed to win the consolation game. Everybody on the team was so blissful, but seeing how depressed the other team was made us empathize for them. It was easy to relate to how they feel because we knew exactly how it felt to loose a game.
As a Menemac student, our projects is where interdependence fits in the most. In english class, we our working on our KC3 project. Interdependence is very effective in this project because everyone in the group has their own subtopic and jobs. We had to make a powerpoint, website, video, survey and script. We all relied on each other to their part of the project because without any of the jobs done, the project wouldn't be complete.
Interdependence is what makes the world keep going. Without it, probably no tasks would be finished. Interdependence happens everyday and it's what creates amity. Empathy is when you gain and understand the other person's feelings. True empathy only happens if you been through the same situation as the person and can only happen if we listen considerately.
