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Enjoying your own company/Spending time alone

  • 22-10-2011 1:35am
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    I am an introvert, while I enjoy the company of others I have a set amount of time I can spend with them. If I don't get at least a couple of hours alone a day I start to get really agitated. On the weekends when I am off college I could the spend the whole time alone not a bother to me. I will turn off my phone and if anyone tries to interrupt my alone time I get pissed off. Anyone else like this or am I just a weird.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    I will turn off my phone and if anyone tries to interrupt my alone time I get pissed off. Anyone else like this or am I just a weird.


    No. I hate it when people ring me when I'm fapping too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    No. I hate it when people ring me when I'm fapping too.

    Haha, funny I'm female so fapping doesn't really apply does it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,889 ✭✭✭tolosenc


    I'm the same.

    Was talking to a friend on Skype recently who commented that no one had seen me out and about for weeks and was I alright. I didn't even notice. Completely unbothered by being by myself or not socialising.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    I'm female

    *fap fap fap*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭Typh


    ^ Fap, etc. Expect a flood of semen OP.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭demolitionman


    Losers.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭policarp


    P!ss off. . .
    I'm ruminating. . .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    policarp wrote: »
    P!ss off. . .
    I'm ruminating. . .

    Yeah.. in your pants.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭jimpump


    bein introvert is all good...yo


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    Overthink nothing, know what you are comfortable with but keep in mind that for sexual relations you will need to make the effort and this doesn't involve football at 12 in the local

    But sure the aul prozzies are cheap now aren't. they/? Aren't they?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭luckyfrank


    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    I am an introvert, while I enjoy the company of others I have a set amount of time I can spend with them. If I don't get at least a couple of hours alone a day I start to get really agitated. On the weekends when I am off college I could the spend the whole time alone not a bother to me. I will turn off my phone and if anyone tries to interrupt my alone time I get pissed off. Anyone else like this or am I just a weird.

    Tbh i love my time on my own when the missus takes the kids to the shops and the house is just quiet, obviously with the blinds down but i love walking around the gaff with just the hair on my back


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    But sure the aul prozzies are cheap now aren't. they/? Aren't they?


    I know a bird who'll ride anyone for a few Fat Frogs & a bag of chips on the way home.

    She loves anal too, so I've heard.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭jimpump


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    Tbh i love my time on my own when the missus takes the kids to the shops and the house is just quiet, obviously with the blinds down but i love walking around the gaff with just the hair on my back

    ya obviously dont have dogs??


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,228 ✭✭✭epgc3fyqirnbsx


    I know a bird who'll ride anyone for a few Fat Frogs & a bag of chips on the way home.

    She loves anal too, so I've heard.

    Lay off my sis dude or I'll get you banned so hard


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    I'm fairly similar OP. Need at least a few hours to myself everyday or I start getting snappy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭Joe10000


    Friends and family are spoken all the time but for good reason, you have to learn to adjust to enjoy them. Time alone is important too but too much isn't, try to come out of your shell a little, it will be worth it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭luckyfrank


    jimpump wrote: »
    ya obviously dont have dogs??

    No i want one for xmass but she keeps going on about how our little girl will go blind if dog poo gets in her eyes, just wanna a little bichon

    Ah well happy wife happy life, cant wait to see her face when i get my 360 ltr aquiriam :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭jimpump


    TUPAC.......yo LOL


    just listen to tupac if yer depressed or lonely.....he speaks the truth bout this ****ed up life we're livin in


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    I think being alone too much is unhealthy.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭luckyfrank


    I think being alone too much is unhealthy.

    Solitary confinement in cloverhill is unhealthy being on your own for a day or two is bliss


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,295 ✭✭✭Joe10000


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    Solitary confinement in cloverhill is unhealthy being on your own for a day or two is bliss

    After a lot of days not being, yes it is.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭jimpump


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    No i want one for xmass but she keeps going on about how our little girl will go blind if dog poo gets in her eyes, just wanna a little bichon

    Ah well happy wife happy life, cant wait to see her face when i get my 360 ltr aquiriam :D

    loada BS pal, we got a shih tzu and yorkie around our young ones the whole time for around 3-4 yrs, and the childeren are grand


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭jimpump


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    Solitary confinement in cloverhill is unhealthy being on your own for a day or two is bliss

    thats the truth...2 relatives of mine are locked up in the joy

    they would kill just to be out!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭luckyfrank


    jimpump wrote: »
    loada BS pal, we got a shih tzu and yorkie around our young ones the whole time for around 3-4 yrs, and the childeren are grand

    how olds your kids my youngest is 19 months old

    People are telling thats to young


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭luckyfrank


    jimpump wrote: »
    thats the truth...2 relatives of mine are locked up in the joy

    they would kill just to be out!!!!


    Thats probably why there in there in the first place


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭jimpump


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    how olds your kids my youngest is 19 months old

    People are telling thats to young

    4 months..why ya think im still up...ha

    seans 4


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭luckyfrank


    Im gonna show this thread to my bird 2moro and then kick her in the gee


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 830 ✭✭✭jimpump


    luckyfrank wrote: »
    Im gonna show this thread to my bird 2moro and then kick her in the gee

    yeah....that will work............lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    Joe10000 wrote: »
    Friends and family are spoken all the time but for good reason, you have to learn to adjust to enjoy them. Time alone is important too but too much isn't, try to come out of your shell a little, it will be worth it.

    I think I have found a balance, I'm not depressed or anything it's just that after say a long day at college where I spend most of my time taking to people and then getting the train home with my friend who is incapable of spending anytime alone whatsoever I just feel the need to recharge my batteries.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,349 ✭✭✭✭starlit


    I am in between on this. I like to spend time with people and be in company and chat with people and socialise but I also like my own company and spend time on my own. I like to be independent and not be dependent on people all the time and I like others to do the same. I like my own space too, and to be able to do my own thing.

    I need to spend time on my own for my own piece of mind. I am quiet content either way whether in company or not so doesn't really matter but I like to balance it out between the two.

    It's not at all unhealthy to take time out now and again and be on your own, but its not healthy to be dependent on others all the time for company or for what ever reason. People need their independence too to grow as a person not just be depended on others. Its not healthy to spend too much time on your own but also unhealthy to spend too much time with people sometimes as it can get a bit much.

    Why people cannot understand balance I honestly don't know though most people are one or the other but there are a bunch of people out there that like their own company and have other's as company too, so no big deal!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 547 ✭✭✭cocalolaman


    I'm the same, I hate when I'm just chilling on my own at home after a week of college then a friend shows up uninvited and pesters me constantly to go do something. F**K OFF!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I'm the same, I hate when I'm just chilling on my own at home after a week of college then a friend shows up uninvited and persters me constantly to go do something. F**K OFF!

    I know its cruel when that happens, I usually have to make up some extraordinary lies on the spot to get them to leave.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    I go to college in the city from 8am-6pm (including travel times). During that time I chat to the guy that I sit beside and some days I meet up with my friends for an hour at lunch if not I just go for a walk through the park. Once I'm at home I like to be by myself and usually spend all of my weekend by myself. I much prefer it that way, Im not a loser or a guy with no friends and afraid to interact. I just feel happier on my own for long periods of time but I couldn't do it for too long.
    During the summer holiday months I would do it up to 1 week at a time at most. I would still go outside, shopping, etc but I just wouldn't hang out with anybody for any more than a few minutes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    I'm the same, I hate when I'm just chilling on my own at home after a week of college then a friend shows up uninvited and persters me constantly to go do something. F**K OFF!

    I know its cruel when that happens, I usually have to make up some extraordinary lies on the spot to get them to leave.

    Oh yes, I have done the same on many occaisions in order to try and get out of a tight spot. ;D


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Jaylen Attractive Sepia


    always been a loner
    i think people know not to talk to me when i come home because i need some alone time after talking to people all day


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    I am an introvert, while I enjoy the company of others I have a set amount of time I can spend with them. If I don't get at least a couple of hours alone a day I start to get really agitated. On the weekends when I am off college I could the spend the whole time alone not a bother to me. I will turn off my phone and if anyone tries to interrupt my alone time I get pissed off. Anyone else like this or am I just a weird.

    Same as myself..I love watching daytime tv and cracking one off,watching the degenerates on Jeremy Kyle.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 320 ✭✭_Beau_


    I don't enjoy anyone else's company quite as much as I enjoy my own, so yes, some "me time" is essential.

    It's the whole noise thing - people talking non-stop puts me in a bad mood.

    Please shut up.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    90% of my non working time I spend on my own.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭starviewadams


    Spending today alone,well with the company of a bottle of vodka,8 beers and some sleeping pills.

    Should be a good one.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    bluewolf wrote: »
    always been a loner
    i think people know not to talk to me when i come home because i need some alone time after talking to people all day

    This exactly. You are so drained from the day you've had, it's even more exhausting having to bullet point for anyone. There's only one person allowed near me when I'm like that, and even at that, if asked it's a very short and nipped version of the day.

    The door won't get answered, and calls are ignored.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Amateurs.
    I haven't spoken to another human face to face in 17 years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭nosey rosie


    OP some people are born that way. If you are comfortable being solitary, great. You should read Carl Jung, who was a natural introvert, and extols its virtues.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭nosey rosie


    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Amateurs.
    I haven't spoken to another human face to face in 17 years.

    Really? How do you live? Surely you need your groceries etc delivered, and have to sign for them...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    Really? How do you live? Surely you need your groceries etc delivered, and have to sign for them...
    Not sure if serious.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Kaneda_


    Introvert - excuse for having no friends and spending all your time on the internet and crying youself to sleep everynight.

    Dont worry bro, i do this also.

    I sometimes tell myself that i am a loner then my brain says'hey your not a loner you just like spending time on your own' then i say 'hey brain do you know what your right i do dont i' then the brain thinks and realises that its all lies and i have no friends and havent shaved o.r showered in 6 days,but hey,battlefield 3 is out on friday so what more can i ask for?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭nosey rosie


    Not sure if serious.
    Ok, thanks MagicMarker. Sometimes I forget what this forum is like :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Kaneda_ wrote: »
    Introvert - excuse for having no friends and spending all your time on the internet and crying youself to sleep everynight.

    Dont worry bro, i do this also.

    Don't project your definition of introvert on me...bro! I'll assume that was a troll anyhow..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 265 ✭✭nosey rosie


    cocoshovel wrote: »
    Don't project your definition of introvert on me...bro! I'll assume that was a troll anyhow..
    Yep, troll pass on... and bother someone else.

    Introvert has become a bad word nowadays unfortunately. I'd rather pass an evening with one, than a self-confessed extrovert :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,085 ✭✭✭meoklmrk91


    Haha, apparently there are an awful lot of boardsie introverts, hmm I wonder if there is a meaning behind that...

    Anyway, nice to know I am not alone, I have a friend who will ask me to stay around when I say I am going home even if there is nothing to do or no reason for me to stay, have made up so many excuses at this stage I'm fairly sure she thinks I don't like her. She is one of those people who can't be alone, at all, for any period of time always needs others around. Which is good I guess because there are nine of them in her house and always somebody calling. I couldn't stand it, no privacy and no peace and quiet. I think I would have to get a tent and live in the garden!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    I am an introvert, while I enjoy the company of others I have a set amount of time I can spend with them. If I don't get at least a couple of hours alone a day I start to get really agitated. On the weekends when I am off college I could the spend the whole time alone not a bother to me. I will turn off my phone and if anyone tries to interrupt my alone time I get pissed off. Anyone else like this or am I just a weird.
    no your not weird im like this as well i love my alone times have no problems with it in any way and couldent care less what others think


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