we normalized moving away from our high school communities to go to college then moving a second time away from our college communities to get a job
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i think we've mostly forgotten how much those transitions sucked (those of us who went through them) but for me the transition from college to post-college in particular was such a jarring shock, i went from having all my social needs met to having none of them met
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and i've *never* gotten back to college levels of having social needs met, in 8 years!
in college i would spend hours a day hanging out with my favorite people, literally every day, and i've *never* gotten a social environment as good as that for longer than, like, a week at a time since
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I had a small group of friends (a roommate, my bf, bf’s roommate) and we hung out often by default. Like “so, are we all going climbing tonight then?”
That’s what I’ve really missed since college: easy, no-advanced-planning, default hanging out.
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god yes. just shout out to all the homies in the living room "hey, wanna go out to see a movie in an hour" and hear back a chorus of "yes"es. i hunger
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I've never gotten the college or home town level, but I finally managed to get one in my late 20s with people I know.
You can do it, but it needs closeness with a lot of people in a way that is hard to form when people start to close off
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