Hello. You are my person. You will always be my person.

I really want to find my person like Christina Yang says in Grey's Anatomy or a good crew like in Friends.

The one thing I feel that I am missing is strong platonic relationships and friendships.

Welcome to How To. I'm Carval Wallace.

Have you ever stopped and asked yourself, hey, what happened to all my good friends?

As we grow older, it's hard to meet new people and create actual relationships with them,

ones that are deeper than surface level acquaintances.

Finding friends feels so easy as kids, or at least it does standing from where we are now.

So why is it so awkward to form new connections as an adult?

Well, this week's listener is wondering just that.

My name is Katie. I work at a school in the West Side of Chicago.

Katie is one of the many young adults who were part way through college during the normal times,

and then you guessed it, the pandemic hit.

At first, we thought we were getting an extra long spring break,

which I really needed. I was feeling burned out.

So the first couple, you know, weeks of the pandemic I was really enjoying myself.

I was reconnecting with my family.

But then came the longer lockdowns and isolation,

and the new reality was harder to stomach.

Obviously you didn't have the graduation.

My sorority had some parties that obviously didn't happen,

so I was disappointed about that.

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