I’d never consider myself a loner, even for a bit. People who know me would agree…I see myself as generally social and approachable and friendly but I was reading Darwin’s latest post and was thinking yes, I hate it when people want to do everything together. I like and value my lone time, to be honest, I don’t mind being alone most of the time, provided people are a phone call or walking distance away. I call it being independent, doing my own thing…

Studying, shopping, walking to work/class…I quite enjoying doing these things on my own. It means I can do things at my own pace, make my own observations, rearrange my thoughts and sort out my decisions.Walking to a place like class becomes a pain when you are waiting for someone or when someone is kept waiting for you, either party eventually loses patience and honestly I don’t see what the big deal of walking for ten minutes in the morning with someone else, yes!! even if you are going to the same place!! why latch onto someone else?? I don’t understand…..

I dont mind travelling alone and going to new places alone, I mean it is nice to have company in long flights and people you know when you go to places you don’t know that well, like honestly, I’d have gone insane, if my friends from back home were not there in Australia last summer, but the thing is you adapt and you always make friends and in things like long flights, I fall asleep anyway…yes it gets boring when you are alone..but it’s not such a big deal and besides phones are necessary part of life these days and someone is always a phone call away..

The flatmate funnily enough is the exact opposite. She is one of those people who can’t go from the house to the shop down the road without someone, she wants people to walk into class with(thankfully we have only one class together and that class is always preceded by one that she doesn’t attend), people to do her tutorials with,people to do her washing with, people to listen to her plans for the day and how she plans on going around her job application process..etc etc etc…the list goes on..I usually don’t mind, but sometimes when I’m dragged to places when I really don’t have energy to go there or listen to how many tutes one does, it does tend to get annoying…

I also hate studying together, no seriously…I’m one of those people who hate group studying because a)nothing gets done b) I’m not given anytime to understand things for myself…in my opinion group studying is an honest waste of time..

Company, I guess is relative factor…I love talking to people and when i lived in an apartment by myself for 10 weeks over the summer, I used to hate coming home to an empty house where i had no one to talk to because i love people and i’m generally social, but then again i also appreciate lone time, time when i could do my own thing in my own way and didn’t have someone else to consider in the equation.