In this world, where every other person is tech-savy, people tend to blindly trust their mobile 'robots' for almost every information they are required to have. Assuming that reliance on people has been diminished, implying to the fact, that now, they are 'self reliant'. This is a complete myth. Self reliance includes the use and believe in one's own resources and hardwork for living. But now, technology is not included in 'others' as everyone has their individual access to it, making them believe that its a part of them.
The whole purpose of the concept of self reliance is to make a person independent and to induce a sense of being a whole from within. Now self reliance is not just required in day to day activities, it is required for increasing the role of one's own mind and body to fulfil the function of living at the optimum level. The issues that many people face that draws them away from self reliance is a need for company, which comes from the famous acronym FOMO, that is, fear of missing out. The social life is given more importance these days than one's personal life. People, in an attempt to be with people, require more people and forget their own selves. This dependence on social groups make people get blind sighted for what is in them. So, to deal with life, self reliance is over shadowed by dependence on others. Thereby, adopting ideas from others and taking help from others makes people weak enough to get through their lives. This signifies the need to be self reliant.
'Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.' This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson is ironically famous in Instagram captions of people who desperately seek for other people to make their life happening. From here, one should understand that to experience life, one should experience all hardships and the good days by their own self. For being 'themself', people need to be independent of other people and of course, the technology. Success might not get in their steps always, but life will be experienced in a better way. Self reliance can therefore, teach everyone, how to live by themselves. This might make life edgy, but it will certainly make one powerful in different ways.