Self-Sufficiency

One of the things that I gained since I left home is self-sufficiency. I'm a kind of person who used to depend on his father to do almost everything, or actually my father didn't want me to do things by myself, and he always wanted to help because he believed that I was young and inexperienced. For example, I used to tell my father whenever my car needed to be fixed, and he took care of everything! which he wanted it this way but I didn't even though some people thought that was a good thing. Also, I wasn't really allowed to travel by myself without my family, and I always wanted to travel with my friends but my father didn't allow me to do so because he was extremely worried about me. When I became 18, I found out that I can't do so many things by myself which I thought that was a shame! so I thought it was time to do EVERYTHING by myself, and I thought the best way to that is to live away from my father. I really love my father, and I know that he did all that for me; however, in Saudi we live with our parents and our parents are responsible for us UNTIL we get married! Therefore, I got to do something because I didn't want to grow up depending on my father to do my things. So I applied to study abroad in the U.S., and I got the chance to do so. After 2 years of living in the U.S. BY MYSELF, now I'm completely satisfied about myself. I can do everything no matter what by myself without asking anybody for help. Well, I do mistakes sometimes; however, I will never learn to do anything if I don't do mistakes and learn from my mistakes. Now, I can take care of my things, and I'm completely responsible for myself!
Hopefully you guys learned something from this :)