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These Are the Friendships That Survived This Year
And they deserve to be celebrated
Tomorrow I have a Zoom call with two people I haven’t seen in-person in nearly 20 years. We’ve been doing a video call every few weeks since the summer. These virtual meetings have become a much-anticipated event of pandemic life for me this year. These women know a part of me and a part of my life that most of my friends and even my husband don’t.
Spread out between three states and two time zones, before the pandemic, we were “Facebook friends” but didn’t have one another’s cell phone number for texting.
Our relationship predates texting. We were roommates back in college.
But this year we finally started a group text. It’s called “Trouble in the Triple”, which references the year the three of us shared one room and (surprise) got into all kinds of trouble. It makes me laugh and helped us all through the stress of the election this fall.
This year relationships were tested and destroyed
Some relationships, both within families and between friends did not survive the year. If you didn’t experience it yourself, at the very least you likely witnessed some heated exchanges on social media.
