Friends are something we all need, but how do you go about making them once you've left school? As a twenty-something living through a pandemic, I've found it hard to make new, genuine connections with people but I decided to change that this week... or at least try!
When you’re young, you meet friends at school, in clubs, at sports matches - it’s generally just a lot easier. As you get older, you start going to work or university and meet new people there. But when a global pandemic hits, your regular social interaction is taken away and you’re left spending all your time at home and fearful to get closer than two metres from anyone, especially strangers.
Even now, when the pandemic feels like less of a threat, many of us are still finding it hard to meet new people. Many others are still working from home. Since March 2020, I have not met a single colleague. There’s been no ‘hanging out round the water cooler’ like in every office-based sitcom, nor has there been a single opportunity to get a little too tipsy at a work-do and decide you can tackle Whitney Houston on the karaoke machine.
