Smile like you mean it
Many of us are sucked into the tornado of obligations and expectations, and we swirl past one another, shouting over the noise that “things should calm down any day now!” We text each other about how we really ought to get together soon, but looking at our calendars side by side we realize that the only free time we have in common is four a.m. on a
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Perhaps these friendship fantasies are perpetuated by society’s emphasis on our social connections for overall happiness and longevity.
On the one hand, the highlighted importance of our social lives has motivated this project—on the other, I can find the research, the stats and the urgency anxiety-inducing.
For example, when I first heard British
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