Alone and liking it

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Does anyone else prefer their own company? I’m awesome and nobody knows it

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That’s where i’ve been the past few weeks

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I need and want people. But I also like to have some alone time.

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Im a hermit. I prefer to be alone

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I like my space but I also like to be around people. So both is good

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I have introvert phases. Usually when I am making a transition in my views of myself and my future. It happened when I was 20 in my sophomore year, I was experiencing sexual liberation and was killing it in school and becoming an impressive weight lifter, getting ready to compete in a local annual competition. I would kind of overdose on being with people both intimately (ahem sexually) and also putting myself in social situations to see if I could do it. Well I did and it made me value my alone time for a short while. I started to prefer being with one or two friends or just alone.

I am extroverted, but lately a similar paradigm shift has been happening. I’ve grown weary of college age/young adult hours of socialization and I instead workout with my friends and well I am fully committed to academia, also long term, sustainable exercise routines. I was invited to go to a live show tonight but I have to memorize a ■■■■ load of biology this weekend and I have a cold, which makes me feel tired, chilly, weak.

So I took a shower and all that stuff then watched some Netflix alone in the dark. I’m coming to terms with what will happen if I get into a doctoral program–I will be on the straight and narrow, work will be my life. I may work hard now, and I am a successful and legitimate perfectionist, but this is child’s play compared to a clinical Ph.D.

I’m basically moving from liberation to concentration. Everything I do must be reasonable…no drinking, no partying, also no sex which sort of sucks but hey I had plenty of it.

I do have a cold, and I am pretty affected by it (was wiped out at 3pm today) or else I would have gone out with my friends.

Introspection is the fancy word for this.

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I’m alone by necessity.

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I need to have someone around…

I grew up with 4 younger siblings and a boat load of cousins.

If it’s just me by myself for too long… not good

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