Am I weird for being a complete and utter loner?

DullGreyGuy

[Deleted User] said:
So basically my life consists of me going to work, coming home, playing video games, watching tv shows, movies and working on personal software projects and just enjoying life. I have a cat and a dog which I love dearly and they are all I need to be happy.

I know I'm going to grow old and be completely alone and that's totally fine with me, it doesn't bother me in the slightest. 

Are you happy, content or whatever other phrase you'd use to say you've a positive view on your life and future? If you are then nothing else really matters. 

[Deleted User] said:
Sorry for the late night rant but it seems that so many people think that if you don't want friends or a family and don't follow societies expectations of what a "normal" life looks like, you're some kind of weirdo.

So what? 

"Weird" just means strange, unusual etc and so you probably are unusual by being happy being a hermit but you are far from the only one. Far worse to want have friends, partner and kids and have none of them, being weird and happy sounds much better than being normal an unhappy. 

 Is your gaming online where you do actually interact with others or not? It's not important either way just there was a recent story of a disabled person who spent their life gaming and died recently. Their parents thought they'd had a very unfulfilled life having almost never being able to leave the home but after his passing vast numbers of people came forward as they knew him from online gaming and turned out he had relationships after all. 

TripleH

The problem is that 'society' likes to have you think happiness comes about through doing x, y and z. That what makes you happy is the same thing for everyone.

Maybe it once was, but it isn't now, the problem is that society keeps bombarding us with images etc telling us that if we deviate from the saccharine dream we will be miserable.

At the end of the day, as long as what makes you happy doesn't result in the suffering of others, then live your life how you want to.

Deep down I suspect a lot of people are miserable but can't admit it because "they're living the dream that is supposed to make them happy".

Rich1976

Nothing wrong in that at all. Far better than having a social circle of friends where everytime you see them, you go home after not knowing much about what they’ve been doing since you last saw them . Many groups of friends I see just talk rubbish rather than anything meaningful .

whilst I am married I do find other people draining and after a couple of hours I’m ready to go home again and do something else . Plus it can be exhausting listening to other peoples dramas, or trying to arrange to do something only to be let down at the last minute or for them to change the plans to suit them . 

We went on holiday a few years back with a close friend and her husband and never again! After one day I was ready to go home but we had got another 4 days of the holiday.

do what makes you happy . I’ve never wanted kids either . If people think it’s weird how you live your life then so what ? Can they truly say they are happy with their own lives ?

Xenon

Nothing wrong with the OP at all - many people wish to be alone and cannot be bothered with social interaction and the bull that comes with it.
I cannot be bothered with people most of the time - happy to spend time by myself without the hassles of explaining myself to anybody.