About ten years ago I was in Las Vegas with a few friends, including Haley, a girl I’d met in a college class a few months earlier and had developed a small crush on. She was taller than me and had long brown hair, and we’d worked together on a project where we’d had to spend some time at each other’s places. I was worried I’d already gotten stuck in the friend zone, but I knew we all planned on rolling in Vegas so I hoped that might be my chance to see if she’d be interested in something more.
We all took molly together and went to the Hakkasan nightclub at MGM, where my friends and I started dancing and feeling the feels as we each came up at our own pace. If you haven’t been to a club in Vegas, the thing that struck me is how every club space is actually build from scratch for that club, and you can tell. The music, dancers, DJs, confetti or whatever else is blasting from the stage or ceiling, and any other performers are all in sync so when the beat drops, EVERYTHING drops. It’s pretty cool, and it can be a great environment to roll in as the feelings of unity and connection are just that much more enhanced.