Instead of Trimming Your Social Circle, Bolster It

Now is the time for making friends, not ditching them

Photo by Vonecia Carswell on Unsplash

Time for an obvious truth: The pandemic put friendships through the wringer. We were physically separated, forced to make the hard choices of who to include in our quarantine pods, and sometimes too exhausted to keep up the Zoom happy hours — leading some people (myself included) to wonder…