Although it would be easy to chalk up my feelings of disconnect to living in a COVID-19 world, the truth is that the older I’ve gotten the more disconnected I have felt from my friends. It’s fairly logical and seemingly an inevitable process of growing up, working, moving to new cities, and getting ‘busy’. If you were so inclined, you could murmur about ‘time zones’ or trot out one of the most overused and underutilized phrases of adulthood, ‘let’s get together sometime soon!’ Whatever the cause and whatever roles I play in feeling disconnected from my friends, I’ve been motivated to seek out new methods of connection.

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