So yesterday afternoon took an unexpected turn for the
better when I just bumped into a couple of friends in a coffee shop.
Honestly before yesterday I probably would have laughed at
the idea that people just happened to meet their friends unexpectedly in coffee
shops. It just sounds so cliché! But then yesterday afternoon I’d just been
checking out what one of my local charity shops had in, I walked past the
coffee shop next door and saw a couple of my friends sat in the window. I
popped in to say hi and we ended up chatting for quite a while.
This has got me thinking about how the way that we interact
with each other as students is in a lot of ways very strange.
As student’s people rarely seem to go round to each other’s
flats or house, why is that? It’s not like we have to ask our parents’
permission to invite a friend over anymore! But even someone like me who’s
always struggled a bit socially seemed to have friends over and go over to
friends’ houses more often back when we had to ask our parents.
I also think its interesting (and slightly worrying) how so
much of our contact and interaction with each other is digital. So often it
seems that you only really know what someone has been up to through what
they’ve been posting on Facebook.
Another thing that I find quite isolating is that most
people seem to mainly socialise on nights out involving drinking. Nothing wrong
with enjoying that but it does mean that people (like me) who don’t like
alcohol seem to be left out a lot of the time.
That’s just my opinion and experience. Maybe it’s completely
different to the general story. But I personally want more meetings in coffee
shops with my friends.
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