This International Friendship Day, Mischa Anouk Smith reflects on her enduring relationship with loneliness and questions if shows like Sex and the City gave us an unrealistic idea of friendship.
It’s Friday night, and I’m lying in my sweats, waiting for a Thai takeout I’d spent too long searching for. I’m also mindlessly scrolling Instagram when—as if I wasn’t already aware of what a sad little Friday I’d lined up for myself—a post stops me in my tracks.
