Hermit

SHE SAID:

I am the person who loves to smile and be around people. I like to make people laugh and I like to laugh. In fact, the second I'm not smiling, I usually have people asking me what's wrong. Tony says I'm a people person.

So can you feel two different ways about the same thing? Because on most days, I'm oh so happy to be by myself... in quiet solitude, just me and my thoughts and daydreams and my books and myself and I. I'm quite content by myself. I swear I could become a hermit one day and live in the woods and grow a long white beard... well, maybe it wouldn't be long, per se.

But you get the idea.


He Said:

Maria talks a great game on the hermit front. But have you ever seen her facebook page? All of those people and comments, it drives me crazy.
What Maria really has is societal separation disease. (I just made that up) But it is where the patient really likes people, but doesn't want to be around them. Enter facebook, or myspace or any other social networking page you can think of. Now the patient can chat with and be friends with all these people and never have to be around them.

On the other hand just the mere breathing of people tends to annoy me. I don't trust people, trust has to be earned. And in my experience, if someone's lips are moving they are most likely lying. Feeling this way has a tendency to make it difficult to be around people. Which is why most of the time I work alone.
So, a hermit in the mountains fishing for trout? That I can relate to...