The joy of hanging out

REQUIRING ONLY TIME AND SPACE IN WHICH TO DO IT, HANGING OUT WITH PEOPLE ISN'T ONLY ONE OF LIFE'S MOST SIMPLE PLEASURES – IT'S ALSO INVALUABLE FOR OUR WELLBEING, DISCOVERS FRANCES AMBLER

Hand on heart, I wouldn't say that my school days were the best days of my life. But, looking back, I would say that they were rich with an activity that contributed to my best days: hanging out. Hanging out was how my school friendships were conducted: on chilly benches, on stuffy school buses, at breaktimes and traipsing around the local shopping centre. Sometimes the hang out extended into long phone calls. Given how little, relatively, was going on in our lives at the time, what on earth, I think, could we have found to talk about? (A question my parents did often ask, looking pointedly at their phone bill.) Not much actually happened over those hours of hanging out, aside from some fairly typical teenage angst, and the backdrops were…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 2023

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