catch-up culture is killing friendship - by laura

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How did we go from sharing our lives with each other to summarising them?

It was late November, bleak winter, when any trip outdoors after five p.m. felt like suicide. “Today A. had to go to the photocopier’s to get the notes for the Spanish History exam. I went with her and then we sat on our bench in the park for a while.” Since the entry is in my journal, it presumably has some meaning to me. I study it for a long while. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a teenage mind should have made painstaking record of its every minutia, I recall with surprising clarity the events of that particular evening. Not long ago, I wrote in a different notebook that…

catch-up culture is killing friendship - by laura

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