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When old friends can only connect on surface level topics

My college friends and I used to stay up all night having these deep weird conversations about everything and now when we get together we just catch up on careers and kids and surface stuff. We're all successful but none of us seems to have anything interesting to say anymore and I don't know if that's just what happens.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Success and conventional adult roles have crowded out the intellectual curiosity and emotional risk-taking that originally bonded the group.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Breathing and nature?”

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