{"id":9978,"date":"2021-06-15T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=9978"},"modified":"2021-05-27T16:59:32","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T21:59:32","slug":"the-pandemic-has-erased-entire-categories-of-friendship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/the-pandemic-has-erased-entire-categories-of-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFriends are sometimes delineated by the ways we met or the things we do together\u2014work friends, old college buddies, beer-league-softball teammates\u2014but they\u2019re all friends, and Rawlins thinks that\u2019s for the best. \u201cLiving well isn\u2019t some cloistered retreat with just a few folks,\u201d he told me. \u201cThe way worlds are created is by people sharing with and recognizing each other.\u201d Many different kinds of relationships are important, he says, and man does not thrive on close friendships alone.\u201d<\/span><\/i>\u00a0 The pandemic has removed our interactions with people we didn\u2019t know that well, and it turns out those are essential categories of friendship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of Friendship<\/a><\/h4>\n

There’s a reason you miss the people you didn’t even know that well. A few months ago, when millions of Americans were watching the Netflix series Emily in Paris because it was what we had been given that week, I cued up the first episode and was beset almost immediately by an intense longing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n