Reformed hermit?

[serene]

I am still an introvert. I think it's in my makeup somehow to be recharged by quiet time alone. However, I think that over the last year or two I've been getting better at finding some energy in social contact.

Last night, I hauled my butt out of the house and went to the Atheist Coalition meeting. If I hadn't talked someotherguy into showing up, I might have talked myself out of it.

The film they showed was *awful*. I managed to sit through most of it, but then I just cracked, and dragged someotherguy outside for a few minutes before the group was kicked out of the room.

Anyway, I had a point. Oh, yeah. My point was that I got home feeling energized, if tired, rather than wrung out. Now granted, there wasn't a ton of socializing involved, but it was a new social situation and I didn't feel completely exhausted. I think that's promising. And I felt the same way after the Bay Area trip earlier this month, but I chalked that up to Noo Luv(tm).

Am I just at the limit of how much solitude I can take, maybe? Am I stimulated by the abovementioned Noo Luv(tm) to want people around more? Am I just tired of spending all my free time around the house? (The answers to these and other questions on the next episode of "Soap".)

Comments

[bandhiaduit.livejournal.com]

You are describing me ever so accurately! I'm frequently praised for my "people skills" and sometimes I feel like I relate better to strangers than my own family (of course, there's no emotional investment so it's EASY!)

and I totally grok what you mean about energy! I have had some of the most epiphanic (is that a word?) moments on the occasions I go to a movie alone. (I'm almost embarrassed to say that for a while PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED was one such movie! I still think it's remarkable, but not Life Changing!)


SEEBLING!

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

:-) I'm happy to seeble with you any time. :-)