There are so many examples I can use to depict the importance
of being self-reliance for many things.
If you wanna get out of the rain, you gotta move to a shelter.
You can't expect someone to stop the rain, though someone might
hold an umbrella for you. The thing is, when is that person gonna appear?
Are you gonna stand in the rain till that someone appears?
Or would you rather stay under the shelter?
For the latter, that someone may just be in that shelter, but you'd
never know cause you stood in the rain, unwilling to move.