My Dad Told Me To Pack My Things And Beg On The Streets On Thanksgiving Night

would use for what I was about to do, and I understand why, but it is not quite accurate. Gloating implies that the point of the exercise is to make the other person feel bad, that their discomfort is the desired outcome. That was not what I wanted.

What I wanted was to be seen.

Not celebrated, not apologized to, not the recipient of any particular emotional continue reading …