14 July 2006

Loner?

It was really making me restless thinkin if I really was a loner or it was just that I acted like one? I have a happy medium on the loner scale. I enjoy socializing, but I also have my moods when I'd rather be alone. Social interaction is important for forming human bonds, getting support and affirming my own personal identity. (As Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve said, "Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.") But it's equally important to do things for myself, have time to reflect and explore the world in my own way. In fact, doing things on my own makes me a stronger, more interesting person. Whether or not I consciously aspired to this state of harmony between independence and human bonding, I seem to have achieved it!
You still think am a Loner? aheemmm!!