People who live alone - how are you getting on?

[8ball]

I feel much less singular now I am back working in the office.

Working from home for about a year was quite isolating.

I've found after so much time alone that the people who have returned to the office just annoy the fuck out of me.
An occasional security guard or cleaner is nice to talk to because they're passing and then I have some peace again.

Someone sitting their the whole day, doing infuriating things like breathing... it just boils my piss these days.

I have a major operation coming up and am dreading what hospitals will be like. No idea what the rules will be like, mask all the time or just when getting up from your bed etc.
Not that getting out of the bed will be any picnic regardless...

 

[existentialist]

I went to a birthday party (stepdaughter) yesterday afternoon, and enjoyed half a day of conviviality, sunshine, and surprisingly moderate drinking, thence this morning to a band practice.

As I came back to the flat this afternoon, my heart sank and I realised with sadness that this place that used to represent possibility, hope, and freedom has become a prison - a place where I act out pretty much the same routine pretty much every day: wake, eat, work, drink, sleep. Part of that's down to me, I'm choosing not to spend the evenings in the company of other drunk people at the pub, with occasional exceptions, but it feels like I've gone from being on the outside looking in to being on the inside looking out .

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I developed the concept of the "social hangover" - when you go out and talk to people and it's great but then you have to come back, and sometimes the up doesn't seem worth the comedown.

 

[Sue]

I just feel utterly exhausted. I mean I'm lucky in that I have a job, still getting paid, my flat is nice and I quite like being on my own. But....I could so do with some vague change of scene.

ETA And i really want to see my family. But that involves a long train journey and I'm not sure if that's the right thing to do.

 

[editor]

he extreme heat and seven days stuck in on my own really has knocked the stuffing out of me. I am fucking desperate to get out of Covid jail!

 

[Sue]

he extreme heat and seven days stuck in on my own really has knocked the stuffing out of me. I am fucking desperate to get out of Covid jail!

Hang on in there, you're nearly there. X

 

[existentialist]

After my very downbeat post of yesterday, I feel morally obliged to say that, having got an email this morning confirming an invite to go and stay with someone for a couple of days this weekend has rather dramatically transformed my outlook. The balance must be very fine...it doesn't take much!