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2016-05-30 06:04:12 Post No. 28920784
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2016-05-30 06:04:12
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>Just get some hobbies, bro! It's easy to make friends if you have a hobby!
I hear this sagely advice everywhere and it just doesn't make sense to me. I need to rant.
Am I supposed to fucking force myself to enjoy things I don't like in order to form a so-called social circle of people who may or may not actually like me due to stunted social skills?
Plus, if there were group-focused hobbies I enjoyed, wouldn't I have already been participating in them up until now?
People do what they naturally enjoy, right? I happened to enjoy single-player video games, reading books, and browsing the Internet as a child, so that's what I feel comfortable doing as an adult. This seems logical to me.
But I guess I just chose wrong as a child despite my progressive-minded parents allowing me to do what I wish with my free time. My freedom in my youth led to self-imprisonment as an adult.
It feels like I'm caught between a rock and a hard place. Either I force myself to awkwardly interact with others in an activity I know I won't enjoy in order to satisfy the human need to form social bonds, or I stay put in my comfortable self-formed prison and try to convince myself that video games/internet/books will mitigate the existential dread I feel every day and every night.
The anti-depressants and therapy sessions do nothing for me because I feel like I've thought everything through to their logical ends, which have no satisfying solutions at them.
It's just not fair, robots. I can't win in this life.
