Socializing is broken.
I feel it.
You feel it.
It’s a feeling that runs deep within our soul. And it’s due to a variety of factors—the illusion of technology bringing us closer together while actually isolating us, being literally isolated for years during the pandemic, clinging to outdated ideas of what we think parties should look like, clinging to outdated people in our lives who we have outgrown, the fact that social anxiety is rampant, and the list goes on.
What we also feel: being social is fun.
More than that: being social is essential to our health.
So while going to therapy, writing in our journal, and renting an Airbnb for a weekend retreat are all fantastic tools in our toolbox… we must also prioritize our social fitness by actively pushing back against against the ever-increasing systems that seek to isolate us.
These systems are profitable for some and destructive for the rest of us.
In order to push back against a system, we have to understand it.
Which means we need to learn.
In order to push back against a system, we have to become stronger than it.
Which means we need to train.