Honestly, if NTCs were a real thing, she will be patient zero. She's the most predictable, boring person you will ever meet. She's in her early twenty s and her favorite shows, Your Warrior. So not much conversation going on there, all right? But even still, she's going to be the most interesting person in the world. A lot of times when people react that harshly to you being alone, that's not an issue with you being alone
Maybe I am a little weird, but to me, it means I don't have to like the noises and the smells and the personalities and the chitchat and this and that. I'm very content by myself. Just give me space. I'm glad that she ended up leaving you to enjoy your cake without everyone else around. Oh, my goodness. The strange ideas that people have about eating alone or doing anything alone, traveling alone. What's the big deal? I like myself
M&M Peanut
@mmpeanut1922 · 1:42
And not having contact with others for so long, it's really done something to my psyche and has heightened my sensitivity to being alone or feelings of loneliness. And that is something I'm actively working to correct. I wasn't always like this. I need to check myself at times. I'm very self reflective because I don't want to project my own s*** onto others and possibly be viewed as having and toxic energy
M&M Peanut
@mmpeanut1922 · 3:00
Or maybe you could always count on your aunt sweet potato pie. I know for me, being a kid, it was always going to my grandmother's house, and it would be a lot of us, and I would get to see my cousins, and we would play games, and the food was always good. But then as I began to get older, my ideas of what the holidays were for me changed
I know that to a certain degree, the illusion of certainty or these ideas that we stick things into boxes like holidays and family and so on should look this way or you should be eating with people and so on. The boxes help us to make sense of things, but they leave so much out and if we rely on them too heavily, we get stuck in them to the point where we can't see or even consider the shades of gray, the nuance and complexity
Regan Ridling
@regan · 3:37
Like Thanksgiving, especially for me, has been kind of tainted in a weird way, because growing up, it was always so stressful if we were going somewhere, and it was stressful to get ready and get prepared and be there on time, bring food, prepare for the holiday. And I had to be on my best behavior, so I was really stressed so I wouldn't get in trouble
night time
@Nighttime · 1:10
You know, you bring up a good point about spending the holidays alone. I've always wanted to spend the holidays alone. And everyone around me, when I used to have a big group of people around me all the time, never let me. And I say that when really I allow. But I was always talking to celebrating even my past birthday this year I had some friends convinced me to go out and I really didn't want to go out
Oh, my goodness. Yes. That's exactly it. Being surrounded by people and yet feeling more alone than I'm by myself. So many reasons why I enjoy doing it by myself. I know a lot of people think it's terrible, but, you know have my own individual traditions. I order indian food. That's my Christmas dinner. Here's to your first Christmas alone
Well, I do prefer eating with like a big group of people or just like, people who are close to me, like my family or my friends. I definitely do think that I can eat alone just because eating alone is kind of like therapeutic for me, especially if I've been like, having like such a long day day or such a stressful day with a lot of things going on
Tanishi Singhal
@iamtanishi · 0:32
Well, I prefer I and I will continue to prefer like, you know, eating with a group of people who are my close friends or family. And I have never tried eating alone on so maybe I'll try today or tomorrow and we'll short post it here if I have tried and everything and we'll short inform you but I don't know, I still want to have dinner or lunch with my family or my friends or something like that
Anant Vajpeyi
@anant.vajpeyi · 2:09
So eating alone is a great experience, or I should say it's rather a very different experience than what you have when you eat with someone. Like for me, I feel that when you eat with someone, right, you have to to put some extra efforts onto deciding what you need to order so that everyone that is there in your group, they can also enjoy that
