Who else crawls out of sociability events with a profound feeling of joy that you won’t have to engage in any more sociability for at least a couple days?
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t hate my sociability events, but boy, am I happy when they’re over.
12 responses to “The Joy of Sociability”
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I am not a good benchmark for normality 😉
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Like Clarissa: this is definitely not limited to group events. It also applies to meeting up with a good friend and chatting for a couple hours. I enjoy it, that’s why we’re friends. But I can’t do that every day any more than I could get drunk or eat a pint of ice cream every day!
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What is a sociability event?
Literary awards continue to decline in value, not that the Goncourt can sink much lower:
https://x.com/phl43/status/2102159290656051586
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God, this is painful. What a complete degradation of all our important institutions.
A sociability event is when you socialize. Like going to lunch or coffee with a friend.
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To be fair, the Prix Goncourt has been worthless for decades.
I was imagining maybe hosting a large event or something. I don’t think I’m operating on your level of introversion 😂
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I’m a social butterfly compared to my husband whose only interlocutors besides me and our daughter are medical personnel when he goes for an annual checkup. 😆😆
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for me a coffee or lunch with one person is great. I really enjoy it. But if any more than that I find it exhausting unless it’s a very small group I feel comfortable with. Which is rare.
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“A sociability event is … going to lunch or coffee with a friend”
Oh for the love of…. I thought you were referring to thinks like receptions or parties or the like… to be clear I don’t do French exits from one on one things…
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A conservative literary critic and college professor
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