What the body remembers doesn’t go away

Whether I go swing dancing after a 3-year break, do some shuffle dance steps after 6 months, or have a conversation in English after 3 months, it just comes out. I thought I might have lost it all (or a lot of it), yet it’s all there. Sometimes, even the things that I used to struggle with magically got easier.

What the body remembers doesn’t go away, even if you want it to.

2026-05-08 | Essay