My friends and I get together once or twice a week to hang out and play games and all that, but almost all year we've been doing online shit. For a while, we went back to face to face, but every time there's a scare in the news they run off and go back to online. I was fine with this for a while, but after 8 months, I've had enough and decided to take a stand and not do online anymore, and will only get together when we do things in person.
I'm unmarried and don't have much contact with the family, so for a few weeks I've been feeling the isolation hit me more and more. I need advice, pedes. I really believe going along with this lockdown bullshit only perpetuates it to keep going, but I'm at a loss. Do I start hanging out with them again online, or do I continue to hold my ground? It's getting tougher to tell what the right thing to do here is.
If you can use your phone to do your online meetings with them, then you should meet with them sometimes still, but do it from some outdoor or remote location away from your house.
That way they see you out doing your thing and living in the real world, and maybe that will encourage them to do it themselves?
Standing on principle isn’t worth sacrificing your sanity, so if you need your friends’ companionship then don’t write them off completely just because they’re fraidy-cats.