![]() ![]() I have meaningful relationships even if I don’t necessarily have a community. The pressure to get invited to a party or activity every weekend in order to have something to do is thankfully in the rearview mirror of my life. I work from home and I have a good number of friends that I see one-on-one or with my partner. On the one hand, I’m old enough that I no longer need to be a successful part of a group. (Okay, I got kicked out only that one time, but it still stings! College improv teams are brutal.)Ĭlearly this is a theme in my life, and I’m not quite sure what to do with it. The truth is that whenever I have been part of group or community, I find myself leaving or getting kicked out. I was friendly with everyone, but I was never in the inner circle. Sure, I went out a couple of times with my coworkers but not that frequently. Ella was talking about spending all this time outside of work with each other and being so close knit. ![]() I had a similar experience a few weeks ago while filming a video about my time at Buzzfeed with Gaby and one of our former coworkers, Ella. It was then that I realized I had failed yet again to be an active part of a group. I barely knew most of the people in my program beyond surface level. I found myself interrupting because I didn’t remember it that way at all. One of the guys in my program started to talk about how it was so small that we were all in each other’s business. I sat at a table with two people who were in my screenwriting program and one of the other guests asked us to reminisce about that time in our lives. This past weekend I went to one of my (very few) college friend’s weddings. ![]()
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