Everywhere you look, it’s the same tired script: “find your community,” “build a support network,” “make friends.” It gets preached like gospel, as if constant socializing is the pinnacle of existence.But not everyone has that, and not everyone wants it. Some people are alone. Some people stay isolated. That doesn’t make them broken, and it doesn’t make them lesser. What’s actually pathetic is the forced cheerleading for “community” like it’s the cure to everything.The ones who get pedestalized are always the loud, bubbly types. The ones who look good in group photos, who can smile on command, who play nice for outsiders. They’re easier to digest; but they’re not the whole picture.And let’s be honest: a lot of those “community-driven” types are fake as hell. Plastic smiles, two-faced friendliness, shallow as a puddle. It’s not about connection, it’s about performance. They’re selling an image. Meanwhile the rest of us, the ones who don’t put on an act, get treated like the problem for refusing to be palatable.
I get where you're coming from because social activity drains me too and I find it extremely stressful, but at some point in my life I realized it was necessary for survival, essentially. It's like eating your vegetables or exercising or whatever analogy you find most natural. You have to do it, and the alternative is to get older, weirder, and lonelier. Don't do what I did, which is indulge those feelings. You'll be up at night thinking of your regrets every night.t. old, weird, and lonely
Persistent isolation does make most people broken though. You can enjoy solitude and still come out of it from time to time so as to keep your social needs in check. You know you can do both, right?
make friends with people younger than you?or watch everyone you know die?which way white man?
>>41032176Society hates boring people They’d rather have a loud mouth idiot than a reserved person who keeps to themselves Why? because the former is entertaining the latter is not
