Oh, that is totally like ME! I am older than you now, I'm 30, but I've been like that my whole life really. I had a few friends in high school that I felt comfortable with, but sometimes I still didn't feel like going to things. It seemed like a lot of effort to make conversation and people didn't (or couldn't) always talk about things that I like (art, traveling, certain types of music that weren't popular, etc.) and I didn't want to play the whole social game. It wasn't me. Even now, I feel like I should be out, single, having the time of my life, but I have done that and it never was as much fun as it seemed like it should be, unless I was with my best friend running around Chicago being silly and crazy). Still, I think it's a reaaally good thing to like just being by yourself. I'm never really lonely and enjoy my own company. I like shopping alone, hanging out in my apartment, and I even went to Miami on vacation alone and loved it! Nobody saying, "hey, we should...." or "let's go do this...." Most people in your life are just acquaintances, not friends. There's nothing wrong with only having one or two really good friends because experts say we become the average of all the people we know. Whoever those people are, make them the best people. The less noisy acquaintances there are around, the less watered down your true self will be.
I don't enjoy socalizing.
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Oh, that is totally like ME! I am older than you now, I'm 30, but I've been like that my whole life really. I had a few friends in high school that I felt comfortable with, but sometimes I still didn't feel like going to things. It seemed like a lot of effort to make conversation and people didn't (or couldn't) always talk about things that I like (art, traveling, certain types of music that weren't popular, etc.) and I didn't want to play the whole social game. It wasn't me. Even now, I feel like I should be out, single, having the time of my life, but I have done that and it never was as much fun as it seemed like it should be, unless I was with my best friend running around Chicago being silly and crazy). Still, I think it's a reaaally good thing to like just being by yourself. I'm never really lonely and enjoy my own company. I like shopping alone, hanging out in my apartment, and I even went to Miami on vacation alone and loved it! Nobody saying, "hey, we should...." or "let's go do this...." Most people in your life are just acquaintances, not friends. There's nothing wrong with only having one or two really good friends because experts say we become the average of all the people we know. Whoever those people are, make them the best people. The less noisy acquaintances there are around, the less watered down your true self will be.