My name is Will DeFries and this is the Sunday Scariest Podcast, York Here for the Sunday Blues.

Friends is a show about six people in their mid to late twenties who live idealistic lives in New York City.

They spend all their time at a coffee shop without having to worry much about getting their spot,

and they live in apartments with square footage that you're more likely to see on a listing for a townhouse.

But somehow the most unrealistic part of all of it is that for ten years these six people managed

to make no major changes to their friend group. Sure, a couple of them got married, one more than

once, and significant others came and went, but there was never really a major shake-up.

Joey getting an acting gig in Los Angeles, Monica giving up the grind of working in New York City

kitchens only to move up state, Rachel getting a Ralph Lauren promotion only to begin hanging out

with a group of friends from a different tax bracket. While maybe they're just that good of

friends, I'd like to think that their portrayal simply isn't accurate for how we handle our personal

relationships today. And while we shouldn't necessarily base our action off television shows,

we're not averse these days to making decisions off other idealistic outlets like Instagram and

Twitter, so what's the difference really? It all began in an early age for me. I'm not sure how old I

was at the time, but I remember that it was around a time when I wore the same hunter-green

Tommy Hill figure crew next sweatshirt all too often. I just remember constantly having knots in

my stomach. My parents in school counselors probably thought I was faking it, but just the idea of

walking into a room of 25 kids that I'd never met before made me feel like an anxious mess,

even as a first or second grader. And as I've grown older, I found that feeling never really goes away,

being in a crowded bar in a city I don't frequent often, going to a dinner party where I've never

really met anyone but the host, even moving into a new apartment and saying hi to people at the

dog park. There are three milestones that I believe most people want to accomplish in their 20s

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