ok i know what circling is now and i hate it
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if anyone wants to anticircle sometime id be willing to occupy the same space as you for half an hour and studiously ignore you in polite silence with a relaxed and neutral expression on my face
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ive done that in circling before. ive also literally napped in a circle. idk what u think circling is that u cant do anything u want
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cause you pay attention to hanging out
It's hard to describe. it's a subtle shift in interaction.
there's a journey with ppl - after I "properly circle" with them a lot we can keep circling while dropping the rest of it and then do 'hang out circling'. it's hard to describe
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its like. there's a way you can walk when you learn how to control your body really well through dancing; the muscles are attuned and different. you can see it in ppl if you know how to look. Circling is the practice of tuning your muscles to just keep walking.
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i don't think so. Much like when I learned to dance i didnt know what I didn't know, in circling it's extraordinarily similar - I'm still learning things about interaction I didn't know I didn't know. Circling has been one of the most profoundly useful things in my life.
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its often done by dancing; some circling styles are more "dance exercises". but that doesnt mean you have to dance to use those muscles, but it does mean you knowing how to dance is present in the way you walk - and there's no barrier to breaking into dance at any moment
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