Are you a hermit?

[Hærfest Leah]

I swear I've turned into a hermit, even my own household gives me a headache and I do not play well with others anymore. I would be a hermit if everyone would just leave me alone. Although I don't condone it I'm understanding now why people leave their families to go off alone to find themselves.

[DragonWhispers]

I just talked about this the other day actually! I call myself a suburban hermit. I typically want to be left alone and if I feel the need for interaction or whatever I will seek it out. I don't really care for people seeking me out so much. I tend to be a private person. Even though I hate saying this it's totally true, the older I get the more people get on my nerves. :lol:

[LadyTrinity]

I am a home body but not a hermit. I like to go out side but money and a vehicle and my neighborhood being pretty ghetto premits me to be out there as much as I'd like to be :lol:

[Karma Chameleon]

I don't like going outside my house and in general I don't like being around people.

The dictionary discribes a hermit as:

A. A person who has withdrawn from society and lives a solitary existence; a recluse.

Or

B. A spiced cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts.


I would say I fit both. I am withdrawn from society and I am a nutcase.
:boing:

[SoulHealer]

Well I am a ex social phobic whic hkind of makes you an hermit.....I'd say I'm a hermit who is now ready to go back outside, I was going to say recovering hermit but I think I needed the Hermit Time

[Valerie]

Hmmm...I think I've turned into one this past year, but not by choice. Happy to say that I'm finally coming out of it. :drinking:

[Spera]

I'm an extroverted hermit. I spend most of my time in my dorm room (I'm not very good at initiating freind activity though I always want it).

[Lewen]

Since my divorce I've found myself to be a hermit more and more...I seem to be withdrawing and trying to find myself again. I've been doing some serious looking inside of myself lately and finding lots of areas in my life that needs changing...on the same token, I've also been enjoying the things I never got to enjoy while being married to ex#2 and basically that is a return back to my pagan roots. Very interesting.

[RowanMegaera]

I am definitely a hermit wannabe. It was actually even written in my Senior Prophecy in high school that I would become a hermit. If I didn't have a small child and a husband to worry about I would probably become a lonely wandering gypsy/hermit. I don't necessarily want to be secluded in one place, quite the contrary, I love to travel and explore, I just dislike people in general.

[Tabby]

I think I definetly have hermit tendancies. The longer I stay in the house the harder it is for me to leave. I tend to want to stay in and be by myself. However, if I continue to get out every day...then I am not as bad. I prefer to be alone and will hide at every chance if left on my own. When I am in public however, I am very much a chatty person...so go figure.. (note: I am not a Gemini either- Aries all the way)

[AstralMoth]

Guess im kind of a lucky hermit. I have a lot of friends , but they all come over to my place to see me. I go out a few times a month to clubs, but other than that i tend to just stay in.

[Faeawyn]

Sometimes I wish I could be a hermit. Unfortunately, my husband is extremely social and we have a large circle of friends....so I'm going out quite a bit. It can be exhausting trying to appease everyone....giving everyone a piece of your time....ah well...I do consider each and every one of them a blessing tho.

[claxon]

Oh I wish. At the moment I'm hunting for a place to live, but the only places I can afford to live in, tend to be Shared houses, etc. I'm just so tired of living with other people, I can never seem to do anything without them bothering me.

If I wanna sit and watch TV, someone will knock on my door for something.

If I want to put clothes in the washer, somone will already be using it.

If I want some breakfast cerial, somone will have used all the milk.

If I want a bath, Someone needs to use the toilet (and this isn't at an obvious time, you'd think that waiting until 3am would make me pretty safe!)

Like DragonWhispers said, if I feel the need to be with friends I'll go out looking for someone, but I need somewhere that I can be alone. Somewhere that I can do my own thing, when and how I want, without having to worry about interuptions.

[Angelus_Errare]

Nope. Not a hermit. I am what you could call a stay at home geek. gotta have my technology and games. but I don't hide from my friends. I just happen to be either on a computer or a console around here a lot. Thing is, so do my friends at their homes.

Either way, I don't think I am. I go out whenever there is something fun to do, and soon will be doing it for work.

[ravenmyst]

Since my divorce I've found myself to be a hermit more and more...I seem to be withdrawing and trying to find myself again. I've been doing some serious looking inside of myself lately and finding lots of areas in my life that needs changing...on the same token, I've also been enjoying the things I never got to enjoy while being married to ex#2 and basically that is a return back to my pagan roots. Very interesting.
what are you doing in my head???????????????????? You even have the same number of ex's :gagged: I have always had hermit tendancies I blamed on being an only kid. I meet enough people doing my job I dont really want to deal with more. However I have for my kids started sociallizing, trying not to let it take over my life :kooky: Hope to one day share my hermit world with likeminded manly type.

[sarabethv]

It happens. Lately, my friends have not been around lately and one of my best friends decided he wants nothing to do with me, but people at work have been seeming more interested in talking to me and making friends. FYI, I don't consider work a place to make friends. So, I am in an interesting position. On the one hand I am not getting enough contact and on the other too much. I have been wanting a little more "me" time where I can do just whatever I want to do. While I'm not a hermit, a couple weeks in a mountain cabin away from everyone would not be a bad thing.

[Witchzee1]

I definitely go through hermit periods when cave dwelling really seems to have some appeal! I am generally quite comfortable by myself and I like quiet but I enjoy people too as long as I can escape when I need to.

There's definitely something to be said for solitude.

[ravenmyst]

I have fantasies about refurbishing a cave and making a real cool home out of it!!!! And I fantasize about being so far out of society they forget to even look, but I have kids..........and I still like some people, so..........

[WitchJezebel]

I have hermit tendencies. I don't particularly like people much, I have a very small circle of friends and we enjoy each others company quite a bit, but not too often. I don't have many parties because I don't like people in my home (except the close friends) I like to stay home mostly during the week when I work, but on the weekends sometimes I like going out. Right now unfortunately, I don't have much spending money for fun things, but hopefully that'll change soon.

[ravenmyst]

ok, last time I swear, can you tell I am a Libra?? I am going to go with recovering hermit with some remaining tendancies, real funny about "my stuff" including my home, but spreading my feelers out into the world

[Loukhos]

_inabox_

If I was left to myself I'd probably be a hermit. I am lucky to have friends that drag me to places with them. I'm glad for it, since I do enjoy spending time with my friends.

I'll be moving out to the middle of nowhere in a couple of months though. Far from anyone I know.

[MoonDragn]

I've lived my whole life as a hermit, since moving out of my parents house I've never actually lived with anyone. Trust me when I tell you I know the meaning of lonliness. It doesn't look like its going to end anytime soon, perhaps thats my lesson for this life? If so, it is pretty unbearable.

[Lost_Sole]

Nope. Not a hermit. I am what you could call a stay at home geek. gotta have my technology and games. but I don't hide from my friends. I just happen to be either on a computer or a console around here a lot. Thing is, so do my friends at their homes.

Either way, I don't think I am. I go out whenever there is something fun to do, and soon will be doing it for work.
:foh: dido. but here some of my friends come over to my place to join in on playing on the computers
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[Flaire-FireStar]

I'm pretty much a hermit...the person... although I wouldn't mind being a cookie. :D

[-Ember]

Very reclusive... even manage to be so in a call center (work.) I have hermit-like skills honed to a fine art ( been thinking of writting a book.... "how to turn a basement bedroom into an all but innaccesible retreat".)

Any former hermits with tips on how to pull out of it when you are done with that stage for a bit and realize you haven't any sense of non-hermit behavior?

[Scheherazade's Muse]

I would love to be a hermit; just me, my cats, dogs, books, writing equipment and computer (connected to the internet, of course).
I would have to go out, of course, for shopping and writing trips. But other than that, I'd be hermitical.
But would you still be considered a hermit if you chat via the internet? Is that still considered human contact?

[claxon]

:hairraise I'm not giving up my internet! You can't make me!


Ehm, sorry about that.... got a little carried away :bouncysmi

[argento_occhi]

I don't mind being on my own eveyr now and then... as for being a hermit, not sure I could cut myself off from human contact completely. I'd need my computer at the very least... don't think I'd like living by myself much.

Argent

[BabblingImp]

I guess I am, I mean I know people and there are a few who know me and understand that I need time to be alone, all alone, I know why too! First, I am an only child, I come from a farm, and I'm an empath..........so if I had it my way I would live with maybe two other people that would come and go, and I would stay put! I really don't like to be out and around too meny people, I rather be in the woods with my animals :crazyman:

[Mistress_Ravenshadow]

I'm a hermit.. i go out maybe once a week to do shopping and thats about it.. i like to be aloneI'm not the kind of person to go and socialize much.. i have a small group of friends and I'm happy with that.. I often think if i was single without kids i'd get a nice quiet night job so i didnt have to deal with ppl and i would have a small apartment with as few things in it as possible i dont like clutter and i dont like lots of ppl around.. when put in either situation my skin starts to crawl and it drives me crazy

[DragonWhispers]

But would you still be considered a hermit if you chat via the internet? Is that still considered human contact?
I think that you can still be considered a hermit that way. :bigredgri I know that I do! Most of my friends are online friends and that is how I stay connected to them. I'm also not about to give up my internet, that's why I call myself the "Suburban Hermit". :spinnysmi I want to have access to things when I need them but I want to hole up in my wee house.

[wooleybob]

If I could be one,I would just love to live in a log cabin way up in the mountains or forest,live off the land,enjoy nature,and the PEACE and QUIET...lol..Come into town couple of times a week to get fuel for genorator so I got my computer...lol