Well, Issac newton was a bit weird. Hey–I admire a guy who sticks a needle in his eye to find some scientific answer but it doesn’t play well at parties.
I have some Facebook friends who have 700 people on their “friends” list. This is not possible. You can’t know 700 people.
Since I’ve become older I have pretty much moved to just my immediate family. My wife and son and daughter and my son and daughter’s mates. When I get social time I try to get together with them. Sometimes there’s another relative or two we see but not too often. I don’t get together with anyone from work much anymore. Yesterday, after work I picked up a 6 pack and a guy from work was there and wanted to buy me a drink and I politely declined. I just don’t feel like it anymore. I’d rather get home–relax, enjoy my shows or books and drink at home if I want something like that.
It’s not that I can’t be sociable. I can. I just don’t feel like it.
So while I have friends. I don’t really. I don’t take time anymore to see them.
I just don’t care. I want to be comfortable with my own interests.
Real friendship(not Facebook friendship) takes time and work. I would say that I don’t have a lot of social types of interests. I’m not in a bowling league, for example. I have more solitary interests. I love to read. I have an on again off again relationship with physical fitness. I love studying card magic but I’m less interested in performing than in learning methods and working on technique.
I USED to be very sociable. I used to hang out with a lot of people. For whatever reason–I just don’t feel like it anymore. I don’t miss it.
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. " Philip K. Dick