Read on Twitter
Deep friendship is often created by consistent, repeated small interactions with people in unplanned settings. You cannot possibly set up what would amount to 5 minute play dates with all the people you may some day be friends with. But you could...
...live in a small village or town where in your daily walking to work, to the cafe, the pub, the grocer, etc you come across dozens of people over and over, enough to become familiar, friendly, and perhaps interested in each other.
Hard to replicate in a car & shipping-centric world, where instead people can only easily have groups they term "school friends" and "work friends". But what we really need more of are these unplanned interactions between people, the pre-friendship phase, in more other contexts.
This year plays a double act on these forces. More working from home means more living in your home area. But more shopping from home means fewer interactions with the world. I hope when this is over we ultimately choose more embodied options for living, and not fewer.
A big reason Twitter is so wonderful is because it allows us these kinds of small, repeated interactions with new people, and I'm very thankful for that.
I have written about this a little, here: https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/familiarity-and-belonging
hahaha I was just about to add that I wrote this because @snigdhar0y asked for it 
https://twitter.com/snigdhar0y/status/1343728970391580674
https://twitter.com/snigdhar0y/status/1343728970391580674
