Three Dimensional Chess

“To many viewers, these details spotlight a common experience: Sometimes you regress when you’re with the people you’ve known the longest. Being reminded of a long-tucked-away facet of your personality can be one of the upsides of long-term friendship. But old friends can also bring back long-abandoned self-doubt and unhealthy patterns that can leave you with that ick feeling.'” The tense relationship among three friends traveling together in this season’s White Lotus is bringing up a lot of feelings for people (who somehow didn’t get the memo that three is the most dangerous number for traveling). NYT: Why Old Friends Bring Out Our Worst Teenage Selves. (I’ve basically had the same friend group since elementary school. At some point we realized that what we all share in common is an inability to make new friends.)