“Symbiosis. I think that ultimately all we want, successfully co-emergance with other living things. Humans co-emergant with plants when they release oxygen and we exhale carbon dioxide, I guess in one way we couldn’t live without one another. I have attached this note I created in labs which highlighted how systems create suger, which all living things need sugar. Plants are autotrophs and use carbon to create sugar, oxygen is a byproduct of the plants process. Humans and heterotrophs and have to use plants sugar, we also use the byproduct to survive (oxygen). On a macro scale we experience co emergence everyday with each other. I find it so interesting how much more lonelier humans have become, we are so hyper independent. Community is so important and I see it a lot in my dad’s generation. Everyone wants a village but no one wants to be a villager, growing up, I used to mock my dad because he is everyone go to person for airport trips, I used to find it really annoying. It wasn’t until my dad surprise birthday party when people were doing speeches about how much they impacted their lives, I saw how many people volunteered their time, money and effort to make food, decorate and show up. It was one day but it really inconvenience yourself, going even when you don’t feel like it. Until that day I was always against leading with that approach because I think it’s so easy to be taken advantage of but so what? If one person takes advantage of you out of 20, so what? It reflect poorly on them that it does on me. The fear of being taken advantage of by people that quite frankly are awful shouldn’t stop me from living life as a cheerful villager.”