2023-11-06
33 分钟Pushkin.
I'm an only child and my mother grew up with four or five siblings.
And so I remember from a very young age,
my mother would always tell me that your friends will be your family.
Meet Catherine Who.
She was very worried about me growing up as an only child and not having that sort of built-in friendship that she had growing up.
But Catherine's mom didn't need to be worried.
because Catherine had a knack for connecting with others.
And when she started college, Catherine quickly got to know many of her fellow students.
Like it was one of those things where you ran into people all the time just by virtue of being on campus and walking around the same places.
So when Catherine moved to D.C.
to start her first job after college, working for the Atlantic Magazine,
she assumed it would be just as easy to make friends in the office as it had been on campus.
But it wasn't.
I felt really disillusioned with young adult life.
I kind of felt
like I had been tricked that young adult life was promised and like pop culture and all these TV shows as this wonderful thing.
You're like finding yourself.
You're in this new city.
You're starting to forge your path.