I love y'all, don't get me wrong, but I joined a weekly in-person DnD group a few weeks ago with some friends and that has done more for my mental and emotional wellbeing than this or any other website ever has.
It doesn't have to be a tabletop group, it doesn't even have to be a group, it can be one best friend that you're particularly close with, just get together with someone face-to-face and have a good time. Whether that's gaming, watching stuff or just plain ol' talking with eachother.
The point is: Get offline and interact with another human being.
Online friends are great, they are, but even today online shit just cannot compare to actually being around others and just doing...stuff together.
In conclusion: The general idea of "Touch Grass" isn't just a meme/insult, there's real truth to that shit.
I'll be honest: I don't want to interact with my old friends anymore and idk how to make new friends. All of my old friends are kinda assholes who are super inconsiderate of other people and I don't really feel a connection to them anymore. They're people who I grew up with and that's it. But finding new friends who I actually gel with is so hard as an adult
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My old college-age friend group was forged in South Park (me included :cringe: ) and when I started going left and started actually caring about more than myself, I sort of chipped away when Rick and Morty became the old group's new ideological guidebook.
Disclaimer: I believe it's possible to be a leftist and comrade while enjoying Rick and Morty, but I'm speaking from my own subjective personal experience where the world started becoming too awful for me to un-see it and yet my old college friends were going full "sometimes Mr. President you just have to not give a fuck!" then ironically diving into the G*mergate-era culture wars, "taking the red pill" :jordan-eboy-peterson: , getting very mad about the 2016 Ghostbusters movie, and so on. :so-true: