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Okay, so who remembers those bizarre pixelated 3D puzzles that were popular back in the 90s?

Remember those? They were this like collection of tightly registered dots and you'd stare at it,

burn a hole in it, doing it with your eyes, and eventually all of a sudden this 3D image

would appear out of nowhere out of this seemingly random collection of dots, supposedly.

As hard as I try to, I could never make out those images, but the people around me

they seemed to have no problem, and the thing that would really annoy me was once a person saw

the first image, their eyes would start to adapt. They could see the next one faster,

and the one after that they would recognize almost instantaneously. They drove me nuts.

Where I saw just random, seemingly disconnected dots, other people saw a complex relationship.

For them all they had to do was glance at the randomness, and it had meaning, form, and structure.

The first time I sat around a climber's campfire at the age of 19, I was surrounded by people who felt

monumentally older than I was. Five, even ten years older, that was ancient.

These people had careers, they had marriages, even children.

And yet, I could sense even though I perceived them as different, we were all connected by something,

something that held us together.

I'd spent much of my life always on the outskirts of social groups,

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