Friends: A How-To Guide
You need them, as an adult.
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Regarding Public Health disasters, the lack of friendship is rarely mentioned. Every once in a while, it pops its head up:
Friends are important. I have them. A non-exhaustive list, just here on Substack…1
I feel blessed to have them. I am blessed to have them. There is no obvious way to make more friends as an adult. Getting more of them seems like a mystery for people who don't have a lot of social connections. If you'd like to go on a date, we have dating apps for that. I think those are scams2 Friendster, in the early days of the pre-MySpace Internet, was theoretically about this concept, but not really. It w…