Pandemic Is Urging Me To Redefine and Recommit To Close Friendship

As it turns out, "effortless friendships" actually require the most effort.

Pandemic Is Urging Me To Redefine and Recommit To Close Friendship As it turns out, "effortless friendships" actually require the most effort. Rohini Vibha Jan 24, 2022 7 1 Share This is an open contemplation. I’m not a flawless friend (is there such a thing?). But, I am working on being a better one. I want to share my journey as a way to invite conversation and inspire you to contemplate, recommit to, and strengthen your community of close friends. Last weekend, I canceled on a close friend last minute. I was meant to meet her and her husband and friends at the park. Though I might say “no,”

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