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Got it - thanks. Sometimes I could use a kick in the seat of the pants to get me away from my cherished books and movies. I'm sure there are quite a few neighbors (not co-workers, since I'm retired) I would enjoy knowing better. It's just the difficulty and awkwardness of separating the...

I like the idea of revisiting old threads after a few years have created a different perspective. That's another nice thing about emails and forums - people don't get their feelings hurt if there's no immediate response.

Not to put you down or anything, but what you say doesn't sound INTP-ish! At some point everyone wants to feel validated, but my take was that INTPs are like camels and don't need to stop at that watering hole very often at all.

I get that. My best friends are people who read, think, and challenge life. The ones I avoid are the ones whose lives are "same old, same old". But even with BFFs I'm leery of "overstaying my welcome", when a long silence indicates a thread has been exhausted.

My question relates to the movie "My Dinner with Andre". When do loners actually enjoy contact with other people? I think that I avoid most people mainly because they seem often to talk just to hear themselves talk, like they turn on a TV just to have some ambient noise; maybe they get...

Being financially independent is a big help. If a job is less than ideal, which describes most jobs, it's a good first step to have "fuck this" money to fall back on. One of my favorite books, Voyaging on a Small Income, shows how one couple accomplished this on a permanent basis. I think...