So I’ve been encouraged to write about the production of my play so I’m intending on doing this every few weeks and seeing what comes of it. Alongside writing these blogs for Sense Social I’m also trying to be recognised as a play writer and so this September I’ll be putting on a play I’ve …
This weekend I went to an open mic comedy night. The room was abuzz with a variety of different faces and voices. Each of us tagged along to support one of the acts. Together we created a small sea of nervous friends and relatives. It’s unusual to find many performances outside of school musicals in …
Loneliness sucks. I think the time has come to start talking about this epidemic that’s sweeping our cities. Since the industrial revolution loneliness has been on the rise worldwide and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down. It’s hard to come out and admit that one is lonely. The very act of doing it creates …
Are you looking for something fun to do with friends? Are you tired of the same old and want to challenge yourself in new social ways? Have you ever considered doing an escape room? I can say from experience that nothing brings people together quite like being trapped in a puzzle. I know it sounds …
We’d all like to live meaningful lives. Lives where we feel valued for the things we do as well as making a positive impact on the society around us. It’s not, however, always easy to achieve this. Life is notoriously unbalanced and we all must “bear the whips and scorns of time” (Hamlet). Throughout history, …
We dream of things that are just outside of our reach. Part of what makes us human is wanting to traverse the undiscovered country. But what is it that drives us to strive for our dreams? Why do we long for things that are just outside of our reach and what can we do to …
We all want to make friends, but sometimes it can be difficult. Often there can be a gap between the friendships we’d like to be making and the difficult realities of the social compromises we have to make on a day to day basis. There are, unfortunately, many barriers to friendship so what I’d like …
I’ve recently been wondering whether or not I shouldn’t try speed dating. I’ve been single for some time and I’ve started to feel a little tired of it. I think, for the majority of us, we’d like to find someone special whom we can spend our days with, yet in practice finding that person can …
Social isolation is the public health risk of our time. A third of the population say they have two or fewer people to turn to in times of distress and science has proven that this is shortening peoples lifespan. As it turns out, what we can do to improve our average lifespan the most is …
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As this is a new year I, like just about everyone, have been re-examining my relationship to my health. Over the last year, I’ve personally been going through a bit of a health renaissance. During the second U.K. lockdown last year, I realised that I had quite a negligent relationship with my health. I had …
