Do you like being alone?

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My introversion and extroversion are quite balanced, although I'm slightly more introvered. I'm at a summer break at the momment and it's killing me.

On the other hand, when school starts and I get surrounded by people 6-10 hours a day, I pray for weekend to come so I can grab my iPod and take a walk in the nearby forest alone.
 
Being with other people is always more fun than being on your own, but that's only when the other people are cool, decent people.

Nothing pisses me off than trying to talk to people that are the worlds worst conversationalists.
 
I do enjoy being alone, infact I prefer it to group interaction almost every time. But I guess I'm in the minority, and most assuredly screwed up in my head :D
 
Yes and no. Alone time is great when I'm tired and just want to take a nap or relax and play some games at home on my own time. But I don't have many friends I actually do things with these days so being alone is really just something I've been conditioned to be used to, although it wasn't always this way. I think if I wasn't for dealing with customers 30+ hours a week at my job I'd feel more social as my job is always very draining.
 
I need some alone time, and really enjoy being alone for long spans of time. But after a day or two of being alone, I usually want to hang out with friends or something. I think I have a good balance of alone time and hang out time. I'll usually do shit with friends one or two nights in a row, then spend one night alone, then hang out again, etc.

Being with people constantly for more than a couple days drives me crazy though.
 
I love having nights to myself and my gf, whether it's just lounging around, smoking hookah or sexytimes. But there are times when I wake up wanting to get shit faced, and thats when i go party with the boys. Obviously great memories are made, however bad choices are made as well.

When I'm around people for to long I usually tend to say the most awful things to myself that you can imagine about anyone i am currently with in a specific situation.
 
I really like being alone. I like to take walks through where I live by myself just to make sure that I'm going to have a solitary time. On the other hand, I also love being around people. I'm not socially inept.
 
vatstep said:
Yes. I have lost a lot of friends due to this, as I just don't feel the need to hang out with people very often. As you can probably guess, I don't really care, though!

The friends I have left either understand how I am, or are sort of like me.
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I'm exactly like this too. I've cultivated a group of friends that is cool with only seeing me a few times a month or less.

Too much socializing just isn't fun to me.
 
I'm one of those people who, when watching a prison drama, wonder why solitary confinement is seen by most as such a dreadful punishment. I worked out the other day that I spend about 96% of my time alone. I enjoy it most of the time but other times it can get a little bleak. On the whole, solitude is fine.
 
I'm usually pretty outgoing, and like to hang out with people, but sometimes I have days where I just want to sit by myself and read/play videogames for hours on end.
 
I used to LOVE alone-time and would specifically set aside a couple of evenings a week to chill out on my own instead of going and seeing friends/the girlfriend, but since moving in with her I've adapted to less alone-time and more couple-time. Pretty happy with the switch, but every now and then you really need some time with your thoughts.
 
Ark said:
Being with other people is always more fun than being on your own, but that's only when the other people are cool, decent people.

Nothing pisses me off than trying to talk to people that are the worlds worst conversationalists.
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The inference here being that poor conversationalists aren't cool, decent people?
 
Alone =/= lonely

I like being around people but being alone to read, write, travel, whatever is awesome.

"Fun time" is better w/ people though. Too much "fun time" on your own is sad.
 
I absolutely love alone time, but rarely get it at school, since my girlfriend is always nearby and always wants to spend time together. Its not that I don't love her or spending time with her, but I need alone time. I don't know how to tell her, though. At least I don't need to over Summer, since I find myself missing her when we're apart.
 
DrFunk said:
yes

alone =/= loneliness
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Exactly.
However being alone while having friends is, I feel, is different than being alone with no friends.
I enjoy being alone every now and then and actually get tired if stay at my friends' for a bit too long.
 
I'm so bored.

I used to enjoy being alone when I liked gaming, watching television ect... Ever since I lost interest I've been lonely as fuck! I don't know what to do with myself other than exercise. The friends that I have now are pretty fake. I really don't know how/where to find sincere friends my age. Meh, I guess the best thing to do in life is look out for #1.
 
I grew up as an only child. So I got used to entertaining myself. When I first moved out at age 18, I had two guy roomates. I had to because of being able to pay for rent at so young of an age. After a year of that I lived on my own for years. I met a girl and lived with her for a year, which was horrible. She didnt give me much space and it drove me nuts. I went back to living alone. I enjoy my hermit solitutde lifestyle, but I think it can be kinda depressing at times. So to be able to save up some money for a down payment on a house, I will be renting a room from my friends house that is a girl. I have known her since i was 16 and she is basically my sister. I know itll be a differen transition and I'll have to get used too it, but it will be a nice change of pace. I used to say I liked and woudl always live alone, but I really think people should switch it up once in awhile, unless you own a house.
 
Nope, but obviously nobody cares that I am, so I am. I know what its like though. After getting dumped by my b/f about 7 years ago, nothing has went well for me. Sometimes I wish I could turn back time.
 
I hate people, whenever I'm out in public I get very annoyed by people. They always get in my way, stand around like mindless sheep and just do dumb things. If most of the world population disappeared, I would be okay with that.
 
I prefer being on my own but it's good to see friends every so often. Find a good group of friends and you won't feel as lonely being alone, might even prefer it.
 
DarkFlow83 said:
I hate people, whenever I'm out in public I get very annoyed by people. They always get in my way, stand around like mindless sheep and just do dumb things. If most of the world population disappeared, I would be okay with that.
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And they see you mean mugging everybody walking all hunched over with a chip on your shoulder. I'd go out of my way to get in your way. What now.
 
I loooove being by myself. I'd say the divide between being with people and being alone is about 20/80 (depending on my job of course.) It's not that I don't like people, I love being around my friends and family, it's just that it drains me after awhile, and I have to go and just be by myself and recharge. This is not unusual, as a rather large chunk of my family are introverted. My parents barely have any friends and spend all of their free time working around the house or hanging out with each other, but they actually aren't complete social outcasts, they just prefer being by themselves as well. I'm also lucky that the majority of my friends are ALSO introverted, and we usually all reach the point of "enough is enough" at the same time, so there are no hard feelings when we no longer feel like hanging out together.

I'm also lucky that my boyfriend is as introverted as I am, and actually we can be "alone" in the same room. I don't feel as stressed being around him as I do other people, it's just like being alone only with another person there.
 
No, but I'm a hard person to be with, have iffy self-esteem and don't want to put anyone through knowing me. Unless they're as broken as me.
 
lethial said:
And they see you mean mugging everybody walking all hunched over with a chip on your shoulder. I'd go out of my way to get in your way. What now.
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Lol, I don't mean mug at people. I act polite to everyone, just deep down, your annoying me at the grocery store standing in the middle of the walkway texting not giving a shit about others around you.

Edit: I think I might have mild social anxiety because I get very agitated when around large groups of people.
 
:lol I read the thread title as a sort of snide remark about my current situation (sitting, alone, reading Gaf).

I hate being alone. I get so down. My flat got broken into a few months ago and I used to be pretty paranoid as it was but now it's quite irritating. Lights always on, msn on if need be. I always hug friends when I see them, or try to at least. I just need people.
 
For sure. I've always been an independent person, so being alone is what's comfortable. I usually do a good job of keeping myself entertained.

Of course, that's not to say I don't hang out with friends sometimes.
 
The one thing I've learned as I've gotten older (now 25) hahaha. Is that It's really hard to find just "me" time. I am always surrounded by people who wanna hang or do stuff, but I tend to go through ups and downs where I'll be a social butterfly, but get sick of it and just need me time, then i'll get all cabin fevery and wanna go out, thus completing the cycle.

So short answer no, long answer yes?
 
Im never alone it seems. Sure me and my ex fiance broke up two months ago but Im always either around family,friends or coworkers. I think Im gonna stay single for at least a year and see what the single life is like because I've been in relationships for the last 11 years straight.
 
I have a girlfriend and lots of friends, but I usually like to be alone on weekdays (apart from seeing my GF occasionally + band rehearsals) and meet people on weekends. It's the same with most of my friends, everyone wants to relax by themselves after work. I guess it's partly an age thing, as I liked to be around people more when I was younger.
 
I've been working overtime and doing particularly social work in the last few weeks, and it has made me realize that a large part of my daily and weekly scheduling involves making alone time for myself. I like to go home for lunch, in fact I'm kind of obsessed with it and I only just now realized that I do it because it's the only place I can be alone, and being with a bunch of people for 9 hours straight is a situation I will avoid if I have the power to do so.

It may not be so much that I prefer being alone, as much as it's just easy. I've become a lot more social in recent years, but socializing is still work for me. I believe it always will be.

EDIT: On a general note, why do posting on internet forums and being alone find themselves in cooperation? I think it's because of what some have said...most who are alone, even those who believe that they choose to be alone, hunger for companionship.
 
don't have much choice. everybody hates me because im incredibly repulsive both physically and emotionally. i've been alone for months now, and everytime i reach out i just burn the bridges and make everybody hate me.

by the way, does anyone know where I can find some cheap rope?
 
I grew up an only child, so I'm pretty much used to it.

I like the idea of people, but in practice, not so much. They tend to irritate me.

Still, these days I don't have much choice in the matter. People rarely talk to me, the longest conversation I had in years with a with a cashier at Trader Joes about cookie dough
 
Lagspike_exe said:
My introversion and extroversion are quite balanced, although I'm slightly more introvered. I'm at a summer break at the momment and it's killing me.

On the other hand, when school starts and I get surrounded by people 6-10 hours a day, I pray for weekend to come so I can grab my iPod and take a walk in the nearby forest alone.
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Wow, this is basically exactly how I feel. Though I'd substitute walks in the forest with runs by the river.
 
I like being with people, but I'm surrounded by plenty of people at home and at work, so having an occasional Sunday alone outside to shop or have lunch is a nice little break.
 
I'm a single guy in the middle of suburbia who has no friends. The only person I talk to is my boss at work. I like being alone, but this is really really testing my sanity.
 
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