"boogie nights"

i remember my first feeling of homesick away from a place not my home. that may sound like an odd sentence but i had fly to los angeles to visit my cousins that i had never met. they had taken me dancing and down hollywood blvd. of the things i remember most is the ending of a song by heatwave, "boogie nights". this girl, a friend of my cousin was dancing to that song, flaying her arms to its rhythm so carefree. it wasn't much of a dance but it was that she did as though it was the dance to do. come to think about it, the only person hard-pressed to express himself and just dance, was me. those were days when i felt too awkward and embarrassed at almost anything about myself because that was a new experience and my cousins were really patient with me and super-cool when i didn't dance. some times people can get an attitude when there is no conformity. that shuffled through my playlist today and instantly i was back there, in los angeles, at the play pen watching that girl dance as heatwave sang "boogie nights"...