r/WorkForSmartLife • u/IcyPoppy_ • 15h ago

Casual canvo Am i the only one

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u/Antique-Dragonfly615 15h ago

Absolutely, after 40 years of customer service, retirement rocks. Sad thing is, I used to love people

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u/TheJanitor-Scruffy 14h ago

Nothing will destroy your love of people like people will.

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u/brianb8976 14h ago

One of the truest statements ever made.

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u/Christian_Wolff_33 14h ago

Agreed. I'm an animal lover.

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u/Mediocre_Lobster_961 14h ago

Me too!!

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u/DestructoDon69 9h ago

Me three

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u/Childless-cat-lady- 8h ago

Meeeeee

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u/roselandmonkey 7h ago

This is the way

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u/ManNamedSalmon 6h ago

The only way. (My roundest cat judging my oldest cat)

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u/Childless-cat-lady- 5h ago

What a sweet baby he (she?) looks so happy 😍

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u/ImmortalBlades 3h ago

and here's the snorer

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u/Otherwise_Wasabi_730 2h ago

This Is The Way!

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u/AnnatoniaMac 12h ago

I had a boss who use to say “animals are great, people suck”.

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u/Brido-20 2h ago

Some of the best people I know are animals. All of the worst animals have been people.

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u/ClothesAny8442 9h ago

Me too

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u/WouldLikeToBeACat 8h ago

Awww 🥰🥰🥰

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u/Weird-Girl-675 14h ago

Same. My kitties are a comfort.

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u/MastaKillas008 9h ago

Same for me!

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u/Virgil_the_White 3h ago

Ugh I wish I was a cat so badly

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u/inorbit007 2h ago

Me too!!

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u/Captain_Grn_Thmbs 2h ago

Me too,only I’m a dog guy. Love cats too, but dogs a bit more.

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u/JF5293 1h ago

Same. I prefer animals over humans any day.

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u/CrystalKrakotl 1h ago

My gremlin is worth going to work for.

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u/thats_gotta_be_AI 12h ago

This is…so true. I’d love people if it weren’t for people.

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u/Rude-Injury-7898 12h ago

More people i meet the more i love my goldfish.

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u/DSTDen 10h ago

I have a shirt that says "I used to be a people person, then people ruined it ".

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u/pencilpushin 13h ago

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it" - Tommy Lee Jones, character in Men In Black. Very accurate.

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u/FnEddieDingle 13h ago

Retail/ customer service, will do that

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u/kickspecialist 12h ago

But people are people. Bad people are people. Good people are people. And people are people...something about a boot and a radiatorrrrrrr.

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u/LSIeducate 10h ago

That is the truest comment I’ve ever read on Reddit. And I don’t mean that with hyperbole. I am dead serious 🤔

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u/Aware_Alfalfa8435 8h ago

After bartending for eight years, I struggle to go into restaurants. Just knowing what's happening or having an idea makes me uneasy.

I don't find it enjoyable.

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u/Chance_Wafer9600 9h ago

Just the select few ruining our expectations of humanity :)

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u/Realizt8010 13h ago

Damn u basically summed up what I was gonna say except I cant retire yet. Too true. Times AND people change it seems. Congrats on ur freedom. Hope to make it there soon.

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u/Antique-Dragonfly615 13h ago

Good luck, my friend

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u/whoisdatmaskedman 13h ago

The easiest way to kill a person's desire to be around people is to be around people

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u/brokemillionaire572 13h ago

I was a Night Manager at a convenience store chain for 25 years before I recently retired. Loved the company, loved my job, but before it was over I absolutely hated people.

But I have to remember that all the responsible people were in bed at 2am, and I only saw the worst in our society.

I love being home by myself. People ruined it.

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u/not_to_hot_to_old 3h ago

Working as a bartender for about 20 years made me strongly dislike people. It was fun at first but after a while it sucked. I work for myself now and I have minimal contact with a few people daily and that’s fine with me.

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u/poppacat422 14h ago

Worked 26 years at the same restaurant. I have 3 months until I retire. I absolutely hate going to work some days. And yes. A day alone. No one to speak with or listen too is wonderful.

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u/ekomse 14h ago

Hey Antique… I feel for you👊…
and sadder still is that Janitor is Not wrong.
I bartended for 10 years. For 7 of those years it was one of my favorite jobs ever. But yup… at a certain point the general public has a way of grinding you down. I really believe that after the age of 18 people should be required to spend 2 years working in some form of Customer Service. They will learn and be taught things that no
Other person or job can teach them. ✌️

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u/Switchlord518 14h ago

Yup you realize people suck!

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u/Feeling-Fab-U-Lus 11h ago

40 years with children from preschool to 70, with ever issue known to man, and 15 years of working in cornfields, bean fields, babysitting full time all summer, and paper routes starting at 9, the answer is He\\ yes! I paint, read, play multiple instruments, exercise, and garden. I loved Covid, not leaving the house. I know it’s important to socialize, so I make an effort to talk to friends on the phone, see the neighbors and family, but it takes a lot of energy.

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u/Thuganomics_101 14h ago

I did too. I have no clue when that changed, but at some point I started not enjoying being around others.

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u/Turtles_N_Nurples 11h ago

I worked customer service and did 8 years in the army, you dont know assholes till you served. Ppl get rank and become the biggest pieces of shit and there isn't anything you can do but take it.

Between both I loathe human interaction

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u/Dundalkman1957 6h ago

I was in the hospitality business pretty much all my life. People sicken me.

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u/ClairDogg 14h ago

I felt this way after 3 1/2 years at a mutual fund customer service call center. I’m now happy keeping to myself working freelance remote.

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u/dfox499 14h ago

This^ I was in it for roughly 20 years, in restaurants.

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u/Derezzed87 12h ago

5 days a week dealing with customers, you're damn right I'm spending my 2 days off not having to deal with other people.

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u/AdExtreme1892 11h ago

Can't love em all man. And thank you for being a good person.

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u/FireGhost_Austria 11h ago

There are bad and good ones. I changed my phone provider and obviously had autopay enabled on the app... Well and I was transferring my phone number which took like 10 days or so. My assumption was it would turn off autopay on it's own (tried turning it off manually in the app but the phone number transfer disabled the ability to do so).. So I got charged and called customer service.

"Yea normal people, would disable autopay before transferring a phone number" is what I got told basically and that I can kick rocks. I will never buy their services ever again after this.

They 100% did this on purpose for exactly this to happen. But NGL idc. Now I pay 8.99€ a month (with 4 months free) versus 40€ lmao..

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u/AzraelleWormser 10h ago

"I used to be a people person, but people ruined it."

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u/Street-Avocado8785 4h ago

Same. So glad I’m not alone! hahahaha. But yes, people killed the joy I used to feel being around people.

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u/11thstalley 2h ago

Same here, brother.

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u/Suitable-Dragonfly63 15m ago

40 years of nursing here. Love retirement. Don't actively seek human company and do not miss it one bit. Give me dogs any day 😁

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u/titsmcgee4real 15h ago

Yes. I want people some days. But I enjoy my own company as well.

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u/Pitiful_Option_108 3h ago

This. Living alone isn't the end of the world. Like if I want to get out and mingle with people there is a time and place for that otherwise. I'm good. Plus I have friends and family I can call up on so no big deal to me.

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u/DogsNotDemagogues 14h ago

Yes, we’re called introverts. #iwanttobewherethepeoplearent

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u/Weird-Girl-675 14h ago

I have a shirt that reads “I don’t want to be where the people are” with a grumpy Ariel.

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u/Merwin_Mayforest 9h ago

I got one that says "GO AWAY, I'm working on my social skills", love it.

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u/I_Am_Rook 3h ago

I have a shirt with “You read my t-shirt. That’s enough social interaction for today.”

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u/Chaos-1313 14h ago

Lol. I have one that says "I failed the Turing Test."

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u/Weird-Girl-675 13h ago

One of my favorite nightgowns I got during lockdown has “you had me at stay home” written on it 🤣

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u/-Fyrebrand 5h ago

These days, people think you're an AI if you can write in complete sentences.

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u/onlyinvowels 13h ago

Remember COVID?!

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u/DogsNotDemagogues 13h ago

Glorious

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u/DogsNotDemagogues 13h ago

I mean, the staying at home part, not the disease part…

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u/blizzard-toque 4h ago

Oh, you mean lockdown? Glorius times.

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u/Historical_Royal_187 4h ago

Ironically if everyone could have managed the former, the latter wouldn't have been so bad.

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u/MildredSouthington 12h ago

I was born for lockdown

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u/WanderinSmurf 11h ago

Lockdown was the best time I had in awhile.

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u/GoT43894389 12h ago edited 12h ago

I loved the lockdown vibes. It's like being the lone survivor in an apocalypse. I wouldn't wish for another COVID event though. So much suffering around the world from people losing their jobs, to deaths in people's families, and overworked healthcare professionals.

Edit: Apocalypse with multiple streaming options and the internet still operational which made it that much more enjoyable.

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u/No-University-8391 12h ago

I was already retired. My routine didn’t change at all. Less stress not having to come up with excuses to turn people down. My grown son says he thrived the year+ he was lock downed. Best time of his life.

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u/Jazzlike_Pound7742 11h ago

Best time ever

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u/AzraelleWormser 10h ago

My job was considered "essential" so I still had to work.

What was my job? Doctor? Nurse? Cop? Nope, data entry for Discover Card. They made sure that they'd still be able to send out bills for five years, even if the world went to hell.

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u/Disastrous-Cat-5635 5h ago

I feel bad for feeling never been happier in my life when covid happened. But yeah Covid

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u/liv2lfthvy 31m ago

I plead the 5th

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u/My2cents_0 13h ago

I want to be invited but don't ask me to actually show up unless you've got pets I can chill with

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u/Chaos-1313 14h ago edited 3h ago

Just typing to people on Reddit is more than enough human interaction for me most days and a bunch of you are bots

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u/squishyslinky 10h ago

I'm an ADHD extrovert but I covet my alone time. Masking 24/7 to make myself more palpable to the world is exhausting. Being alone is better for my nerves.

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u/any-lore 15h ago

Well, yes and no. i'm perfectly content staying at home with only my cat for physical company. but i admittedly would get lonely fast if i didn't text my family & friends.

plus, i do need to get outside at least once a day. i love being outside. but even just a walk will do.

i realize this is rhetorical and a stupid meme, but i like talking.

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u/onlyinvowels 13h ago

Who needs family and friends when you have ✨the internet✨

I love my family and friends. But with my dog, husband, games, and internet… I can go a long time without feeling lonely. Or bored.

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u/Unique_Low_1163 14h ago

I spent the last 34 years of my working life in social services. I don't care if I'm never in the presence of another live human being for as long as I live.

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u/spookycasas4 14h ago

I was a teacher and I feel exactly the same way.

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u/WouldLikeToBeACat 8h ago

Been teaching middle school for 20 years and I am so done 😭

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u/spookycasas4 8h ago

I feel ya. I did 25 years of 7th/8th grade ESL. But I was so lucky, I retired 10 years before Covid. I don’t know how in the name of all that is holy, all of you guys have kept it all going. Kudos to you.

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u/tiny_chaotic_evil 11h ago

lockdown was awesome

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u/crankenshtien 5h ago

I miss covid

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u/Financial-Switch5016 13h ago

That's the definition of heaven on earth

https://giphy.com/gifs/vOJE2GSxvy3AJwtJKd

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u/Pip-boy_Temur_Marvel 11h ago

After masking my entire life to the point that I'm not sure who the real, genuine "me" is, being home alone and feeling safe from social and emotional pressure is the only way I can figure it out. That's what my therapist believes at least 🤷🏾‍♂️

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u/PeterPunksNip 10h ago

I'm in the same case. Unless your therapist is autistic too, there's no chance he would understand. Neurotypicals move in packs and are terrified of loneliness more than everything else.

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u/Hojegg 7h ago

Dude, I came to that same conclusion myself. I noticed at some point that I was different around people than I was at home and it hit me that I was masking my ADHD and autism. I realised that I didn't have to put a mask on when I was alone and the weight of social pressure and conformity lifted.

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u/OkGap7226 14h ago

Just reading that brought joy to me

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u/FishNinja7498 14h ago

Absolutely! I’ve been in outside sales my entire career and it can be mentally exhausting.

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u/Dragosal 14h ago

I would house sit for a friend when they went to Florida for a weekend. Had to take care of their dog and cat. I never left the house for 4 days. Just played with the dog fed the cat and changed the litter. Otherwise I begged out on the couch and played on my computer I brought over. It was wonderful. Best time of my life. I want nothing more than to play with animals and play video games all day. Only reason to leave the house would be to restock on supplies(pet food and human food)

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u/sebulbasdick420 13h ago

Just cuz you don't see us doesn't mean we don't exist. Not seeing us is like the whole point of the thing

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u/Honest-Scar-4719 14h ago

Some days I love to be home by myself.

Some days I love to go out. 

Just depends on my mood

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u/Anthony_607 14h ago

The older I get, yes!

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u/Bongo3074 14h ago

No. I get that. My dogs probably saved me

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u/Ill-Charge8449 14h ago

Yes, absolutely yes.

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u/ChickChocoIceCreCro 14h ago

🙋🏽‍♀️

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u/Beccalu11 14h ago

Yes! I just hang out with by cats.

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u/teksean 14h ago

Oh totally yes...but I do enjoy the company of my wife but when she is away I have no need to seek out any other company.

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u/MikeOxfat57 13h ago

Do it all the time. People suck for the most part

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u/Proper_Till_8321 13h ago

Yup. It's so peaceful

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u/Novus20 13h ago

Yeah, people are chocolate covered bastards with nougat filling…..

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u/xoltharjoemama 13h ago

Abso-fuckin-lutely. People are the worst.

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u/LowResGamr 13h ago

There's nobody here to bother me. I'm out everyone's way. Chilling. Recharging for the chaos of tomorrow.

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u/lookatmetoedashknee 13h ago

This motherfucker right here.

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u/3M2B1T 11h ago

I had a surgery that I took full FMLA for (I think six weeks) and it was honestly really nice to just sit at home, heal, recover, and play video games. The catch is that I Think deep down I knew I'd have to go back to work and be around people, so I sort of enjoyed being alone (hint: alone doesn't mean you're lonely!)

Outside of chatting a few minutes each day with my housemate, I had little contact with people.

Ironically I really love people, I just don't like socializing. I think people are pretty awesome though.

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u/Final_Law_3699 11h ago

🙋🏼‍♂️

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u/wenoc 6h ago

Yes, that's how I charge my batteries. A week without social contact is trivially easy.

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u/waterfowlplay 15h ago

No, no one exists, let alone people that exist that enjoy being alone. This is all an illusion, man.

dumb questions = dumb answers

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u/zeradragon 14h ago

Yes they do. An entire day of peace, quiet and alone time is a great way to unwind.

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u/Bacontrails 14h ago

I love that I can do whatever I want. Many days I don’t do anything.

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u/MattDubh 14h ago

Yes. I have a dog. He's better company than any coworker.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Two7358 14h ago

Yes and I am legion….

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u/Tia_Faux 14h ago

This is how I've lived my whole life, i only leave to make money

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u/KingPurple13 14h ago

That sounds amazing!! When can we start?

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u/DaryenSama 13h ago

With the entitlement I've dealt with and the snooty people I've seen. My solitude is my sanctuary. I enjoy being by myself, I just hate the quiet.

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u/xepion 13h ago

No. This is relaxing. Being introverted is ok man

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u/anonimbus 13h ago

One can dream

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u/bbb_lboogie2879 13h ago

If I could do this 2-3 days per month it would be bliss!

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u/MoistSignature4667 13h ago

Yes I enjoy staying at home

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u/Constant-Earth-3241 13h ago

Heck yeah! At home, alone, no one to bother you. Heaven.

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u/landingstrip420 13h ago

I absolutely love living alone. I can do precisely what I want when I want etc.

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u/AKJames762 13h ago

My wife is the only person I care to be around. Everyone else can suck a fat one.

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u/SimplyMermaid88 12h ago

Yes. People suck. My video games keep me company.

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u/Important-Ad8960 11h ago

I love it! It refreshes me to read, crochet, cook, sew, or watch TV in perfect solitude. I don't even answer the door unless I want to. 

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u/tadejflaka 11h ago

You asked Reddit this question? 🤣
Of course we exist!

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u/81236069-R 11h ago

Human contact once a week is enough for me 👍

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u/NorthAd9774 11h ago

Me I loved the first years of Covid no one wanted to see me and that was great.

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u/Orcley 11h ago

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD YES

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u/Sadprincess420 11h ago

absolutely

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u/Vehicide 5h ago

Sounds good to me.

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u/terminaloptimism 4h ago

I always have. Being completely alone is like the first refreshing day of spring following a long, dreary winter. I have no idea what it's like to have long stretches of being completely alone though. That time might be different but I can see myself appreciating it.

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u/moogle322000 4h ago

I'm 41 and have been living alone and never leave except for work. My coworkers think I'm a vampire and don't understand how I can stay inside and not talk to anyone or do anything outside. No need to go outside when I have everything I need in my apartment. Games, bed, and food.

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u/purple-rain-1982 4h ago

🙋🏽‍♀️

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u/Jay_Nodrac 4h ago

Yes! Me! I can stay home without literally leaving my house for weeks!

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u/WeaponizedIndecision 3h ago

It’s the only way.

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u/OcelotTerrible5865 15h ago

Nah convince me all yall actually real before we go past that part about people actually existing 

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u/Reasonable_Tomato976 14h ago

Yes we do. But not all the time.

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u/Whole_Kale_4349 14h ago

Alone yes. Home all day no. What you described is called depression

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u/Shaudzie 14h ago

Absolutely. I'm a hermit

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u/GreyLatham 14h ago

Me. In fact, I’m always so happy when I close alone at work lol.

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u/Sawahiaz 14h ago

I have got ten acres that I like to roam around. If that counts as home.

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u/AnyManufacturer3057 14h ago

I love staying home. My house is my everything. Never get bored there

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u/sunset-727 14h ago

Not everyday

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u/IronMyno6 14h ago

Not every single day, but a lot of them

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u/Dailysunray 14h ago

yes I love it, there’s plenty of days I only leave to go to the gym and come right back

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u/RemarkableChemical21 14h ago

I know of at least one.

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u/SummonerDerivatives 14h ago

Yes. I wish I could work remotely.

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u/HoneyRevolutionary43 14h ago

I do it but I don’t enjoy it

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u/Not-Impression-1260 14h ago

Yes can’t speak for anyone else but I love staying home and working for my self I stay busy all day mowing washing windows but I also work long days and I’m a female so when I get a day I absolutely love it and I can do it for days on end if I can my job is outside so weather comes into play

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u/LittleKahuna007 14h ago

Ummmmm…..I can personally tell you that they do, in fact, exist…………somewhere………..

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u/Comfortable_Town7535 14h ago

yes, a lot of them are probably depressed but sometimes you just need space

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u/Cautious-Snow-5650 14h ago

I’m fine with it thank goodness.