I was 28, recently single, and wanted a group of women to go out with here in new york.
I created a group chat with the loosely held purpose of “doing fun things together” and invited a few cool women who I knew but who didn’t know each other.
As women, it’s in our blood to seek out and build community as a matter of practicality; we know that there’s strength in numbers. More resources, more support—more women to go out dancing with.
But with time, and to my surprise, this group of strangers grew into a group of friends. We’re different on paper so friendship had seemed unlikely, but I quickly realized that it’s more a shared spirit that makes friendship possible.
As women, we had similar sufferings and lessons learned, often telling different versions of the same story.
We were growing up and growing older in the same city, each of us navigating work, dating, and a social life here in new york.
And we were like-minded, all intellectually alert, curious, compassionate, flawed, frustrated, and human.
Friendship is a bolstering, emboldening force that has an even greater effect when your friends are friends with one another—every woman should have a group of women.
*I applied this belief and the lessons I learned in building a network of friends to the idea behind Real Good.
And as we meet more and more women in search of the same intellectual and social companionship, our group continues to grow.
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