Please listen to the passage and fill in the blanks with words you hear. Our lives are woven together. As much as I enjoy my own 1 , I no longer imagine I can get through a single day, 2 all my life, completely on my own. Even if I am on 3 in the mountains, I am eating food someone else has grown, living in a house someone else has built, wearing clothes someone else has 4 from cloth woven by others, using electricity someone else is 5 to my house. Evidence of interdependence is everywhere. We are on this journey together. As I was growing up, I remember being carefully taught that independence not interdependence was everything. “Make your own way”, “Stand on your own two feet”, or my mother's favorite remark when I was face-to-face with 6 of some action: “Now that you've made your bed, lie on it!” Total independence is a 7 theme in our culture. I imagine that what my parents were trying to teach me was to take 8 for my actions and my choices. But the teaching was shaped by our cultural images, and instead I grew up believing that I was supposed to be totally “independent” and consequently became very 9 to ask for help. I would do almost anything not to be a 10 , and not require any help from anybody.