If you're a loner like me and stay home all day, you will be depressed. Not because I'm a special case of loner, but because if you don't get out of the house, you will feel a growing void that eventually consumes your mood with negative thinking.
It's time to address your total lack of engagement with the world. I know that if you read my blog, you won't want to do that. But it's time. Just because life is intolerably social doesn't mean you should cut yourself off.
We are in no position to do so. There has to be light, air and movement for basic living. There has to be a sense that the outside world is real. Even if you're just creating a daily ritual where you go out and by a pretty girl's house, and see if you can wave, that's something.
Even if you go to a job you hate, get out there. Go sit in the cafeteria with the people you hate. Try to make something of it.
I get it. I really do. You don't want to do this. But you're not the only one with this problem. And you have to give yourself a fighting chance. It comes down to needing vs wanting things. You only want to stay at home and do nothing all day. What you need is to get out and see the world, however long that takes you to do each day.
Make it a ritual
The 1 percent rule applies here. Just grow by one percent a week. Get yourself out there. If they don't like it, that's their problem. The world isn't going back to what it was. So remember: you literally can't survive in total isolation.
"error" courtesy of Saatchi art
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