When did we become so bad at friendship? | Johanna Leggatt
It’s not that we have stopped communicating with friends. In fact, we’re all in constant contact, if that is what you would call it
Occasionally I will get a nagging sense that I am missing a fundamental piece of me. It’s as if I have misplaced a crucial something along the way, but I’m not quite sure where, or how far back, I dropped it.
Weeks will pass until eventually I find myself engrossed in a face-to-face catch-up with a friend; a conversation that bypasses pleasantries and verbal backfill, where new worlds and possibilities seem to open up and schedules slip away.
