After-work drinks on Zoom are not the same as in the office or the pub. I can’t wait to reconnect

The pandemic has been a destroyer of worlds. Now we have started emerging from our foxholes, taking account of the damage and cleaning things up.

A lot has been written in the last few weeks on the toll the pandemic has taken on our friendships. In what’s also been called the great pandemic friendship reckoning, post lockdowns people have clocked the asymmetry of certain friendships (“you weren’t checking in on me, and I was always checking in on you”, etc) or that some friendships have become stale and catching up doesn’t fill you with joy, or things have changed and you have changed. No one is the same person they were two years ago.

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