What messes with me most is the socially-programmed expectation that I should feel lonely, and that it's not okay to be isolated (and that it's somehow like smoking 5,000 packs per day or whatever).
It causes me to constantly feel surprised at how okay I seem to be with being alone and like something's wrong with me or I'm not feeling the bad effects yet or something. :D (And the latter is true if you consider the erosion of your relationships as a bad effect, which I do.)
What messes with me most is the socially-programmed expectation that I should feel lonely, and that it's not okay to be isolated (and that it's somehow like smoking 5,000 packs per day or whatever).
It causes me to constantly feel surprised at how okay I seem to be with being alone and like something's wrong with me or I'm not feeling the bad effects yet or something. :D (And the latter is true if you consider the erosion of your relationships as a bad effect, which I do.)