Normally, I am a pretty self-sufficient person. I don’t usually ask people for much, and I try to wriggle out of sticky situations on my own. Sometimes, it seems people are even a little put off by this, as if they would be happier if i asked them for more, but I see it as my way to just not be a burden to anyone. Recently, I moved to China, and this experience has made me more reliant on other people than at any other time in my life.

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It was hot as hell, as summers here tend to be, but I was among friends and sharing good conversation.

But it reminded me of another night when I was hanging with him and a Jamaican friend of mine. they were chatting about scuba diving, as Andrew had just returned from Jamaica and he had sort of found a new religion in diving.

Jan shared that he loves the water. In fact, he said, “I’m more comfortable in water than I am on land”.

Anyway, i’m sure we were drunk or stoned or both, but he said something I thought interesting enough to share. He said, “I think the biggest evolutionary mistake we ever made was coming up out of the water, because we turned around and saw our reflections and suddenly had to cope with a sense of identity”.

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