Repotting

I’ve been thinking a lot about “repotting friendships” lately and how interacting with the same people in different settings can bring out different sides of us. The psychologist Marisa G. Franco claims that there are upsides to “challenging the norms” of friendship, for novelty can be nourishing. In a season when sitting across a table from someone and chatting for hours feels a little harder, there is something comforting about the idea that trying new activities and watching new films and visiting new exhibitions counts as relationship-building too.

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