Giant party at my house too! I never thought I would miss parties
Finally making out with [redacted]
Getting to flirt because I'm able to interact with people who I don't also share a house with 24/7, and (new, poly, in-quarantine) housemate relationships are not a good idea, but also I want to date
Being nice to strangers / not literally running away from them if they get too close (I wonder how hard this habit will be to break?)
Smiling at people without being like, shit, they can't tell, I'd better make my eyes squinty
Wearing lipstick where everyone can see it
Wearing clothes I'm excited about where anyone except my rather indifferent male housemates can see it
Getting to meet my coworkers in person
Holding my best friend's new baby and booping its nose and kissing its tummy as much as I want, because this will be the first time someone I know really well has had a baby and so they won't think I'm weird
Going on walks
Being somewhere other than my house, literally ever
Being spontaneous
Trader Joe's
Buying my own produce
FEMALE FRIENDS
Not having everyone around me be on video calls 90% of the time
Not having to be on video calls really ever
The knowledge that I could go to ecstatic dance if I got on BART for half an hour and paid $20 – I almost never do that, but I just like knowing that somewhere out there ecstatic dance is happening and I could join if I really wanted to
Having a routine
The possibility of performing on a stage again
Massages, oh my god
All those weddings that got postponed! Gonna be so many weddings!
Literally everything you listed

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[-]mingyuan5y60

Re: Casual minor encounters and non-encounters with strangers – I have been really surprised how much I miss this, because I previously thought of myself as not all that interested in the mass of people around me. But now, I think so fondly of this one time I was at the grocery store and needed something from a top shelf, and I was able to just stop a guy walking past me and ask him to reach it for me. Also another time when I was walking home from the BART station and someone asked me for directions to his hotel, and how rewarding it was to help him. And another time during morning commute when I struck up a conversation with an old guy decked out in Green Bay Packers gear because I figured he was probably from Wisconsin, and even though he wasn't, we had a really nice and friendly talk. And all the conversations started by using a little red Radio Flyer wagon to get groceries. I guess you don't know what you've got until it's gone.

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