Empowerment means to be an independent man. I believe that in this world some people will care about you, others will not care to think about you, your family will love you for some not unfortunately, but in the end you’re the only for yourself. In a logical way, there is only one person who cares for your life, you. Before you are left alone, however, you are nourished by your parents as you matriculate from a baby, to a teenager, to an independent adult. I will be empowered when I am an adult, who is financially stable, educated, and achieved. When I wake up in my own house, when I make my breakfast, when I think for myself, when I know myself, and when I am independent I am empowered.
One of the greatest difficulties in achieving my empowerment is “change”. I usually do a lot of talking but not too much walking. Action! I need to take Action on my beliefs. I am fearful of the consequences or as a philosopher said the “unknown”. Humans are naturally scared of the unknown; therefore, it is not natural for me to change. Changing is not just black and white, it has many different criteria, from the positive to negative, to know consequences and the unknown. For me to be empowered, I think it just takes more guts. More guts to live happier, to follow my beliefs, more guts to be independent, more guts to be empowered. It seems impossible to start from nothing to something. Sometimes I might fall constantly in despair, sometimes I might be pushed down, but it in the end when I become empowered is when the impossible comes true.
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it.
-Malcolm X
