Is it normal that i do almost everything alone

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I have always been an introverted person, but recently I put the next step and become a "solitary wanderer" (though I don't wander much). I had a few good friends in college, but after graduation we went on to completely different paths & countries, so I don't see any of them right now. I don't have any friends other than the people I talk to on the net, and hence, half by choice and half by obligation, I have developed an extremely solitary personality.

I go to movies alone, I go shopping alone, I take walks around the lake while listening to music alone, I cycle alone, and I even go to food places by myself. Sometimes I notice the stares of people who see me in these places alone again, and this sort of annoys me, but I can't say that I am particularly sad (I am not happy either, I am living in a some kind of apathetic mode).

Probably it's not normal, but here, I asked it!

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  • Sog
    10 years ago

    No, it's completely normal. It's just the way life is. Don't let social media trick you into thinking there's something wrong with you if you don't have five friends chained to you that follow you every place you go.

    If it were a requirement that we all have someone accompany us every time we eat, most of us would have starved to death by now.

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  • blue-light
    9 years ago

    It's Normal. I am very much like yourself. I do everything alone. Movies, Shopping, Eating, Walking, etc and I am very contented. I feel safe with me and I respect me. I feel lonely sometimes and that is normal and that empty feeling always passes. this is a time when I feel connected to my self. Sometimes I need to feel a little sad, depressed. etc then I become grounded again. It always passes. I use to have a lot of so called friends and felt so lonely all the time, yet surrounded by friends and feeling unsafe and insecure. I like me and I feel contented. That lonely empty feeling is part of being human even if your married, or living with someone or you have a lot of friends. It's worse if you are in a love-less relationship or friendship. It's like hanging out with a dead corpse and you wonder why you feel so lonely. I stopped clinging to people to be my friend or lover and to make me matter.I matter to me and that makes me feel contented and appreciated, which so often you just can't get with friends or other people. People will spend a whole day with a stranger, eating and staying in a nice hotel, but won't treat themselves to the same experience alone. You are very normal.Like yourself, treat yourself and feel contented. because you matter.

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  • ThomasWayne
    10 years ago

    Most of the people that surrounds me are full shit so most of the time I try to stay away from them as I can. They give more disadvantage than advantage. Although I regularly chat to some of my friends and relatives.

    Since you said that you do everything alone, I suggest not to have sex alone because, you know, it kinda sucks.

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  • ucipher8
    10 years ago

    I have been to concerts, alone. Movies, alone. Restaurants, alone. To sleep, alone.

    Im trying to get used to it, maybe its my destiny? At least i have a job that i spend 80 percent of my life at to socialize in some way.

    Sounds sad, and sometimes it makes me sad... Though what else can i ask for? There are starving children in africa, etc.

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  • Shrunk
    10 years ago

    it's not really normal, what seems less normal is that you used to be a social person now you really have no choice. I do everything alone too, unless it would look weird. I used to think eating alone would look weird at university but I just study while doing so and I dont even care anymore. It's sort of the opposite. I've always wanted a solitary life now that i have it i feel so lonely. but socializing is just too tiring for me

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