“ Everyone wants to attend parties, but no one wants to throw them. We just expect them to appear when we need them, like fire trucks. My point is that we are obligated to create the social world we want. Intimacy, togetherness—the opposite of the crushing loneliness so many people seem to feel—are what parties alchemize.” As someone who tends to host a little more than average in my friend group (even though I hate it, lol), I support this. -via Americans Need to Party More by Ellen Cushing for The Atlantic.