no but I have to make a post about it because my mom isolated me so much and treated everyone with such fear that I ended up self-isolating and fearing everyone and all my life my only solace - because you need people in your life that you don't fear or hide from - was the Internet
but the internet looks different now and I haven't learned anything explicitly but I am starting to try to learn that regardless of the fear and isolation, there will never be anything better than just...interacting with people, real people, in the flesh
anyway I went to the bodega and one of the Bodega Guys (tm) was smacking a beat on the side of a thing to match some music (they always have a radio on) and I started dancing and he goes "oh! you can dance!" so shocked and I was like "am I not Dominican?" and he was like "yeah but you were born here" and I was like "do you know my mother? cuz she taught me everything I know" and it was just silly and fun and healing and home and seeing everyone smile and shimmy was idk idk
this weekend was so shitty but that interaction really healed me
