What do your friends say about you?

On not knowing what others really go through, on your online persona and on when to monetize your writing

Hi friends and new subscribers,

Happy Monday!

I'm writing this from a cottage get-away with my university friends.

Now that the government has allowed indoor gatherings, we made sure that all 14 of us could make it after having not seen each other for almost a year.

And it's been a really good experience so far. 

During one of our convos, I found out how each one of us had a very different experience with the pandemic. Our group had all kinds of nurses, from pediatric, mental health, ICU, and of course, as you know, I'm an Emergency nurse.

Every specialty was deeply affected by the pandemic, and hearing my friends' stories made me feel even upset.

But somehow, we are making it work by either going to therapy, leaving the bedside nursing or hoping for it to be better at one point. We were not prepared as 20-year-olds to deal with so much sadness and grief and take care of dying people. We were not prepared as 20-year-olds to see so many deaths, ranging from children to the elderly.

I've never …