The Post-Pandemic Willows

Making sense of my confusion about the future of friendship at the dawn of the new “normal”

The post-pandemic will probably not look like how a Wired article says it will. Rather than returning to social circles to which we once thought we belong, this eighteen-month-long intermission has already been the watershed moment. We have subconsciously rehashed the concept. We will not verbalize our meandering half-baked theories, but they are prematurely observed. I don’t know how exactly it will play out for me, but I can already…