By @TobyChilliShow
May 4, 2021
You know how when you’ve taken an extended break from the gym? You have to ease your way back into exercising or you’ll feel like you’ve been hit by a truck the next day. What we’re finding out is that it’s the same thing for our socializing muscles. Now that things are opening back up, people are trying to party like it’s 2019, but finding out they can’t hang.
But don’t feel bad if you feel like you need to leave brunch to take a nap. According to psychologist Lee Chambers, “feeling a level of social exhaustion right now is completely normal.” We’re all simply a bit out of practice on our social skills and Chambers says that “shaking of the rust is draining.” Nothing against Zoom but it simply does not compare to all the senses you’ve got to use in real life.