I worry that I'm weird for enjoying living alone. Shouldn't I want other people around? This is what we're told. I'm rather between friends now also as people that I did hang out with have moved on or found new interests or we've just lost touch. I seem to be closer to some long distance friends than anyone around here.

I like traveling by myself. I prefer traveling by myself except with my children. I enjoy being able to go where I want without a lot of "well if you would prefer" or "now are you sure you want to go here?". I feel more free to just relax since I figure no one knows me and it's not likely I will run into many of them again.

Sometimes I wonder if I am just too strange. We get all the stuff about how we should always do things with other people. Television certainly shows people always in groups. I am around people and I do spend time with people, it's just not on a full time basis. I enjoy coming home from work and not having to make conversation.

I know people who live with someone, significant other, spouse, children and roommates, and yet talk about how lonely they are and how no one understands them and how they wish they had time to themselves. I'm ok with where I'm at right now. Maybe sometime I might want someone around, but not right now. Even with occasional loneliness I'm not ready to live with someone right now.