I like being alone.
 
I like drinking coffee alone, and reading alone.
I like riding the bus alone, and walking home alone.
It gives me time to think and set my mind free.
I like eating alone, and listening to music alone.
 
But when I see a mother with her child, a girl with her lover, or a friend laughing with his or her best friend, I realize that even though I like being alone, I don't fancy being lonely.

 
How many of you feel this way? As somebody who grew up with little to no friends, this hit me right in the feels

Yup....T`werent for you interwebs folks I'd be anti social.

XrayMan

  

*Smack*

direraptor22

Being connected to the net, games, and the world...is never being alone. I actually prefer it...and find there is never enough time in the day to accomplish everything I set myself out to do behind this screen.
And your picture is someone that is only looking at life's hardships... and not someone that is capable of building an empire.

Nope does not connect to me. I always had a lot friends to hang out with when I was a child and young adult. But now I dont really talk to 95% of the people that I hung out with or had in my phone contacts now. Its like right after high school everyone splits and goes their own separate way in life. At least I know most of those people would of not do me any good in my life anyways. All of them but one are the average American idiot who does not care about anything other than being entertained. Lately I only been hanging out with three of my friends that I known from high school. By the way you know how I said about only one of them is not an idiot. Well that someone is a person that I still hangout with today. A matter of fact he is a member of this forum too. I am referring to Sajin. You know it man, got to give you that shout out brother! He's been my bro for 11 years now. Got to love that bromance. But other than that I do like being alone when it comes to my privacy. I am sure many of you would feel the same way about that too.
 
 

Hulk Smash?
 
Im not anti social, but this old fashion cowboy has come close to giving up on this generation, its a shame that most look at my outspokenness , think for myself and logic as too old fashion.  I can understand some wanting to be anti social these days. And Im not always angry.......

If your have a wife & kids like me your never alone.

I'm pretty much anti-social, but online man so many people I talk to. Going online is like entering a whole other world, where you can be whoever you want

Some days I like the solitude and other days, I feel really lonely.
 
~Fus

When I was a little kid my birth mother wanted me put in special education because she was lazy to tell me to do my homework and didn't feel like being a parent. I went to three different schools during elementary school (third one was because my father won custody and I would slowly switch into normal education). Obviously the switching to different schools made it hard to make friends then not to mention the transition from special to normal education. When I did make the switch some of my peers would call me stupid or fat (I was a bit fat when I was 10). I made some friends in 6th grade but I constantly kept making different friends and switching who I would hang out with in 6th,7th,8th,9th,10th grade. In 11th grade I was more of aloner because I tried to better myself by not hanging around the "wrong crowd", basically people who would steal, not care for school, get into fights etc. Then 12th grade came a long, I did have a few good friends, one of them being my best friends but we had different lunches so I spent the better part of 12th grade alone during lunch. 

Now college was completely different. I made some nice friends that I still stay in touch with. I went from Cal Poly Pomona to the University of Michigan and now I'm back in school at Cal State Fullerton getting my masters in Computer Science (too broke and switching careers from Aerospace Engineering to Software Engineering due to lack of job market and me just not being that all into Aerospace Engineering).

When I look back at my pre college years, I'm happy. Especially looking back to elementary school. I got a bachelors of science in arguably one of the hardest fields of Engineering from one of the top 3 schools in Aerospace Engineering in the nation. All of that being aloner crap or being called stupid by my birth mother or my peers doesn't mean crap to me anymore. :)

At times I do like to be alone sometimes. What I love about computer science is that I can jam to  music and isolate myself from the outside world while doing homework assignments/projects. I tend to be a very shy person when I first meet people (doesn't apply when alcohol is involved), but once I open up, I'm pretty outgoing (at least I think so). I don't have a ton of close friends, but the ones I do are dear to me. Plus I'm married now so there's that. Sometimes my wife just doesn't understand that I need to be alone sometimes. Now, that's not to say that I hate working in groups, I just mean that to clear my mind and to blow off stress I need to be alone. 
 
P.S. watching a movie alone is the best. You can sit anywhere you want (I use to be pretty self conscious about it).
Also working on computers is the best. Nothing like jamming to music while building your own computer. 

Back on the original quote
I like drinking coffee alone, and reading alone. (Applies)
I like riding the bus alone, and walking home alone. (I use to do this all the time in Michigan and loved it. But now I like to drive alone)
It gives me time to think and set my mind free. (pretty much)
I like eating alone, and listening to music alone. (pretty much)

I'll go back to grade school for a few good examples...
 
You know that kid who always sat by himself during lunch back in high school middle school elementary school? That kid was me.
 
You know when the teacher tells the class to pair up for a group assignment and there's an odd number of kids in the class? I had to either squeeze into a group to make the exception of 3, or work by myself. Most of the time by myself because nobody wanted me in their group.
 
You know that kid who swung on the swingset by himself during recess? That kid was also me.
 
I don't mind going a little bit more in-depth, since some of you here have shared a bit of your personal side. I was placed in special ed. throughout most of my elementary school years and my memory of that has faded a bit. I know I was diagnosed with mild autism, which makes sense now when I think about how socially inept I was (still like that to this day). I had an above average IQ but way below average EQ. I also had many behavioral problems, which got me into a lot of trouble and further separated me from my peers (good thing that has been fixed, or else I'd probably be in jail right now). Basically, I was the "weirdo" of the school, who had completely opposite interests from the typical kid, and did not get along with anybody. I remember 2-3 people I ever got along with, and to this day I still think that they were the ones "above" everybody else and felt sorry for me and wanted to make me feel not so left out. I have lost contact with them ever since getting out of high school.
 
I do not miss my childhood

I am doing just fine.
 
 
 
 

Same here...I'm a loser and in my 30s without every having a date. Sigh. But then again I'm good at stabbing people in Battlefield, so I have that going for me. :)

Hmm, I think we need an EVGA Support Group... *hugs you all*