Heya playa, are you bored? Bored of not being able to see your friends in person or even
just interact with them like you normally would at school? Don't worry, in this video,
I'm going to teach you exactly what to do to stay in touch with your friends to interact
with them during this whole quarantine, social distancing thing that we're going through.
This is The Josh Speaks. You're watching The Josh Speaks. For those of you that are new
here, my name is Josh and every single week I make videos sharing tips, ideas and stories
teaching you how to be your best self so if you want to learn and grow, hit the subscribe
button and make sure to click on the notification bell. Look you are not alone for feeling cooped
up in your house, and not being able to go out and see your friends and hang out with
them, we're all experiencing that together right now but there are a few things that
you can do to kind of get through this moment and still be social with other people. The
first thing you can do is actually the simplest. Set up a group chat with you and a bunch of
your friends. Now, don't just randomly jump on. Set an actual time for all of you guys
to get there so it's easier for people to plan it in their day. Maybe you have homework
or chores or other things you have to do at home but, if you have a set scheduled time,
it's easier to have everyone on that call. Making it a consistent thing you can do every
night or every week is gonna give you something you can look forward to. You might be thinking,
well, why would I talk to my friends with if I'm not going out, I'm not really experiencing
the world. Just fill them in on what's actually going on in your life. Sometimes it's ok to
talk to your friends about how you're scared or annoyed or you're bored just sitting at
home. Sharing those feelings with your friends is going to be the best outlet for you, especially
if you have to stay cooped up inside. When it comes to sharing your feelings with your
friends though, sometimes the group chat isn't the best way to do it so you should also set
up one on one video chats with your closest friends. Sometimes having that individual
time allows you to get deeper and more real with what you're actually feeling because
you don't have an audience watching and listening to what you're saying. I think with everything
going on right now, this is the perfect time to reconnect with people you haven't talked
to in a long time. Maybe it's your old friend or maybe it's a crush you have. Either way,
take time to reach out to people individually, give them that due time to just talk to people
about what's going on in your life and just learn more about them. Because what can easily
happen is once you stop reaching out to people, asking them how they're doing trying to video
chat with them, you might start to feel like well, no one's reaching out to me so why would
I even bother? And that's just kind of creates this regressive loop where you just become
more and more closed not talking to anyone so you have to break out of your comfort shell
a little bit and reach out to people instead. Next, to prevent your group video chats from
becoming the same thing every single day, try to work on something with your friends.
Maybe all of you can play Minecraft together and build something online, or you can work
on a music piece and just kind of share different notes and things with each other that you're
working on. Either way, use this time to be creative with your friends. That's gonna allow
you guys to kinda find new things to do every single day and to look forward to. One thing
I recommend doing just for the fun of it is to start a collaboration channel with you
and your friends. Each of you can take turns every single day uploading a video about what's
going on in your life, your thoughts on things, heck, you can even take some of the topics
I talk about and share your own experiences with it. And I know, you probably already
still have a lot on your plate, a lot more chores to do since you're home all the time,
your school's probably giving you tons and tons of homework because they don't really
know how to handle online learning just yet, either way, have this creative outlet that
you can share with your friends is gonna keep you sane in this time, it's gonna prevent
you from just becoming flat out bored. For some of you, you might not have a close group
of friends that you can talk to and interact with so, what do you do? Well, I would highly
recommend joining The Josh Speaks community. This is a group of people that I've put together
on Discord that are just working on being their best selves. It's a great place to make
friends, share ideas and interact with people that are like-minded, that really want to
grow and learn in life so check out the link for it, I'll link it up over here, I would
love to have you as a part of our amazing community. But that's not the only one, there
are tons of awesome communities built around fandoms, around things that you like. Whether
you love sports or a tv show or an anime, whatever it is, find the community out there
for you with people you can interact with that are like-minded, that like the same things.
That's a good way to create new friendships and find friend groups that you never would
have thought of before. Being bored because you can't see your friends is probably not
the only experience that you're having. There are gonna be days where you feel angry and
annoyed and confused and scared about everything that you're hearing. I know I've been experiencing
that a lot so the best thing you can do is to talk to your family members about them.
Let them know what you're going through, let them know how you're thinking and feeling.
Your feelings are always mentionable and manageable. There are people out there that care about
you and want to help you through this crazy crazy time. I'm curious though, what do you
think? How are you interacting with your friends during this whole quarantine period? Are you
video chatting with them? Do you have a group chat going? Do you interact on Snapchat or
Instagram? Leave your comments down below and let me know. Sharing your ideas might
inspire someone else to reach out to their friends in the exact same way. Talking to
your friends when you're on quarantine is pretty tough but dating can feel even harder
when you're supposed to be social distancing so, how do you date during these times? I
want you to check out the video over there on the side where I break down how you can
make dating an actual reality for you. Also definitely join our Josh Speaks community,
like I said, it's a great place to make friends, to interact with others, to share ideas that
you have and a great way to stay sane during this crazy crazy time. On that note guys,
I'll catch you next time. As always, love and peace. Stay safe out there.