it's weird that i was having a problem and then i went to other people like "hey i'm having this problem and i would like help solving it. maybe also incidentally helping me solve it will help you too if you have a similar problem?" and then we made a plan and did the plan and literally my problem is solved for at least a few days anyway. probably this isn't that weird except it is because i have never done it before so the novelty is making it seem very bizarre to me like this some sort of glitch rather than the way things are supposed to work. haha