The beatles sang, "all the lonely people, where do they all come from" and I ask the same question.
In high school you have the awkward stage where we get lonely and antisocial. Not everyone but I think may people gets in a stage where we just want to be alone, all by our emo selves. I've alway wondered why we feel the need to isolate ourselves and why some of people are bent on being antisocial because I think, as cliche as it sounds, nobody wants to be lonely.
People need people.
I'm not talking about alone time or "me time" but what I can't understand is how people can say they like being completely by themselves all the time. It seems like an innate urge to be around someone. Even when we want to be alone, I think we need someone near us. In the library when you're immersed in a book, it's just more comfort to have others immersed around you, whether they are strangers who don't make a noise or friends who keep bugging you.
I don't believe in antisocial-ity. I believe in stages, phases, and modes. And I believe we all need to be with people, it makes us one step closer to wholeness, one step closer to sanity, one step closer to happiness. That's why i believe we should all fight apathy, fight the urge to be lonely, fight for right to be with people. Because even if they are only ghosts, the slightest hint of presence is enough.
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It's innate that people are social creatures. People who are comfortable when isolated are either lying to themselves, or have some neurotransmitters off balance or something. But technically, being anti-social is against society, like violating norms and burning crickets and punching toddlers. You're talking more about isolation. And no normal person wants to be completely isolated.
I think Samuel makes a really interesting point. I guess I've never understood or recognized the difference between being anti-social and isolation. I guess in our minds we always have this binary of either you're social or anti-social and we rarely see those middle grounds in which maybe you are a bit anti-social, but you still need that social contact. But the isolation is a good point, I mean the worst punishment that is given in prisons is solitary confinement and that literally drives people insane.
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