Donât Worry, You Can Learn to Talk to People Again
Soon we will no longer be trapped in our homes and skittering away from strangers. A few experts remind us how to be social again.
Credit.Miguel Porlan
April 23, 2021
After a year of isolation, there are things you start to forget. You forget how to stand in a crowded commuter train (legs apart, slight bend in the knee) or how to shimmy sheepishly past theatergoers to reach a middle seat (face away, apologize repeatedly).
And, without a constant parade of baby showers and work mixers, you forget how to talk to strangers: The witty banter, the conversational volley, the way you break the ice with âHow about this rain, huh?â instead of âSo, what do you consider your greatest failure in life?â
“Spring ahead” will come as an even bigger relief than usual after a year of lockdown.
Credit.Sally Deng
March 11, 2021
With the first anniversary of lockdown fast approaching, I thought I’d been through every possible pandemic milestone. As the months rolled by, I’d checked them off like squares on a Bingo card: First pandemic birthday, first pandemic holiday, first pandemic panic attack in an empty toilet paper aisle at Target.
But while the country was collectively mired in the coronavirus crisis when we turned the clocks back last November, there’s one pandemic milestone we haven’t fully experienced together yet: Turning them forward.
Charlotte Taundry, right, and Holly Burns, left
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