Small Talk Counts As Cardio
6 min readMay 6, 2021
Nothing exhausts me like people I’ll never see again.
I feel drained. I feel like someone’s pulled a chain and stopper at my feet and all my energy and will to be a good person have washed out to sea. I can’t do any more small talk, I just can’t. There’s nothing left in my tank of tolerance for exerting energy toward social situations that have no bearing on my future whatsoever. We can blame the pandemic, I…