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No one has any friends - by Normie Macdonald - A new normal

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I know what you’re thinking. Your social calendar is full. You’re busy, fielding texts and DMs all day, going to happy hours, exercise classes, and basking in attention from the internet. You have no friends. Two hundred guests attended your wedding. Your presence is demanded at social functions, with little time to yourself on weekends. Overwhelmed you frequently forget to respond to your relatives and close family members. Something is always happening and you’re just trying to keep pace with it all. You have no friends. Life is lonely. At times it feels like you are invisible. Work, school, a few chores and errands, then a bit of time to sleep before it starts all over again. Someone could reach out to chat, if they truly cared, but no one ever does. You have no friends. Most people don’t. Friendship as classically defined and understood is near extinction. As with anything else that has become endangered at the hands of humanity, we can blame this on something very familiar. More o

I know what you’re thinking. Your social calendar is full. You’re busy, fielding texts and DMs all day, going to happy hours, exercise classes, and basking in attention from the internet. You have no friends. Two hundred guests attended your wedding. Your presence is demanded at social functions, with little time to yourself on weekends. Overwhelmed you frequently forget to respond to your relatives and close family members. Something is always happening and you’re just trying to keep pace with it all. You have no friends. Life is lonely. At times it feels like you are invisible. Work,…

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