I moved out when I was 18 and have been living on my own ever since. I have a roommate, but we aren’t close and we rarely speak or see each other. For the first two years of living on my own, I was alone often, but not necessarily lonely. I’ve always been introverted and anti-social, so being around people was never a huge priority. I’ve always enjoyed having my alone time and I keep really busy with work anyway.
However, this past year or so, it’s really began catching up to me. I find myself craving human contact. I just pushed it too far with thinking I could go as long as I did without ever being around anyone. That’s when I began to feel really lonely and started calling my mom close to four times a day, just because I wanted to hear a familiar voice.
It’s the same reason I started joining Q&A websites, so I could communicate with people.
Now isn’t so bad. I’ve met some great people off the old Q&A website I belonged to and I speak to a few of them on the phone often. Even though talking on the phone isn’t the same as being around people, it has helped me tremendously, more than they’ll ever know, for me to not feel so damn lonely.
I’m fortunate enough to have a few people I can call anytime about anything.