Acharya Prashant explains that a relationship of dependence cannot be a healthy one. When another person becomes central to your well-being, it is not a welcome situation. He questions whether the person one depends on is even worthy of offering that wellness, suggesting that they themselves might be incomplete and seeking wellness from you or elsewhere. Being incomplete, one seeks completeness from another who is also incomplete. This is classically called the case of two beggars uniting in the hope that their union will produce a billionaire, which it does not. The speaker states that half plus half equals one only in mathematics, not in life; in life, a half operating upon another half results in a quarter. He advises being cautious of the small things and catching your dependencies when they are still nascent. Do not let them take root and become a deep-rooted habit to get attached, identified, obsess, own, or possess. One should live lightly through life. Something that is with you today will obviously not be there tomorrow; even you will not be there tomorrow, let alone your possessions. This is not merely a reference to death. The person you were at twenty is gone when you are twenty-five. All your old selves have left you. Since you could not prevent your own old self from departing, you cannot stop the other from departing. That is the nature of the physical universe; nothing here can be stopped, and there is no point in trying.