I never really fit in with other people. I'm not interested in the things they are, and they're not interested in the things I am. So I just learned to play alone from a young age, and that continues to this day.
I like myself and enjoy my own company, so for the most part it's fine. I do feel lonely and melancholy about it from time to time, but I've felt that way while in a relationship too. It has less to do with being alone and more with how hard it is to find anyone similar who really "gets me."
Yeah, I very much resonate with what you said there. I live life on my own terms and generally follow trends 5 to 15 years behind.
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Side note I have always preferred basements and I love caves. Not sure why.
Surrounded by impenetrable ground with one known entrance. Sense of safety?
I lost my belief in free will around 7 years ago, and it's been an entirely positive experience for me. It has clarified so much about life and completely rid me of hate and anger.
I keep hearing about people having the opposite experience, and I have no theory of mind for that.
Seems more trouble than it's worth honestly. I'm sure it works for some use cases but I doubt the chain of my year-around mud basher is the ideal one for that.
Speak for yourself I guess. Most people would tell you that the amount of friends negatively correlates with age.
I've made one or two "friends" during my 30's and both are my customers. I barely stay in contact with any of the people I was friends with in my 20's as they've all moved elsewhere and I'm the only one who never left my hometown.
AlphaFold, developed by DeepMind, solved the 50-year-old "protein folding problem" by accurately predicting the three-dimensional structure of nearly any protein from its amino acid sequence.
Today it's widely used to speed up drug discovery, vaccine development, and disease research by cutting out a major bottleneck.
But sure, let's throw all the nuance out the window and just generalize that AI sucks.
I'm self-employed and doing the kind of work I'd pick if I could freely choose anything, so I can't really say there's much about my job I don't like. After all, I have the luxury to refuse any job I don't feel like doing. Like I did with applying wallpaper - fuck that.
I love that I can set my own working hours. I can take a day - or a whole month - off whenever I want. My running costs are so low that not working doesn't bankrupt me. I get genuine gratitude for what I do. I manipulate the physical world, so at the end of the day I can see and touch what I've produced. I love that my customers are unreasonably reasonable. I love constantly learning new things and sharpening my existing skills. I love that no two days are the same. I get to work both outdoors and indoors. I love that I don't have to touch a computer. I love that I get to do things the way I think they should be done instead of how someone tells me.
Nothing here is level. The cabinets are hung from the top to a board that's attached to the wall but there's nothing to compensate on the bottom so they all lean forward. If it wasn't for the modern hinges all the doors would swing open due to gravity. There's no storing bowling balls in these cabinets.
It's an IKEA kitchen that the previous owner probably installed by themselves.
You're free to think that way. It, however, is in no way in conflict with what I originally said, and thus isn't the self-own you think it is.
I said very clearly that I view 50 posts and/or 200 comments a day as insanity. To act as if 1200 comments in 100 days - which averages to 12 comments a day - is somehow equivalent is pretty disingenuous.
It either saves you money or it doesn't take a lot of effort. Can't have both. Growing even 5% of the food you eat is barely a hobby anymore but rather a job.
I never really fit in with other people. I'm not interested in the things they are, and they're not interested in the things I am. So I just learned to play alone from a young age, and that continues to this day.
I like myself and enjoy my own company, so for the most part it's fine. I do feel lonely and melancholy about it from time to time, but I've felt that way while in a relationship too. It has less to do with being alone and more with how hard it is to find anyone similar who really "gets me."
Yeah, I very much resonate with what you said there. I live life on my own terms and generally follow trends 5 to 15 years behind.
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Surrounded by impenetrable ground with one known entrance. Sense of safety?