[quote]malonetd wrote:
There’s a lotta things about me you don’t know anything about, Dottie. Things you wouldn’t understand. Things you couldn’t understand. Things you shouldn’t understand. You don’t wanna get mixed up with a guy like me. I’m a loner, Dottie. A rebel.[/quote]
Pee Wee was out of his mind. Dottie was a hottie. I’d totally do her.
I don’t know what criteria you are marking yourself against to qualify as a “loner” but I figure myself to be -starting in university I found I identified more in individual pursuit(s), as in weight training. This magnified as I dropped out of school (held down 3 P/T jobs, full course load, both parents lost their jobs at about the same time, broke up with a long term HS girlfriend) Life looked like shit for a while & one of the things that kept me going was the gym, and the fascination with the weights & their ability to transform my body & mindset.
I don’t have that laser-like focus I used to have in the gym but I still have some discipline in hitting the gym regularly, despite a F/T job & being married wih obligations. Looking back I am quite certain if it wasn’t weights I would have not fared so well & at times I am sure I was clinically depressed. I made new friends, occasional training partners at the gyn, but none I found could hang with me in terms of gym schedules or enthusiasm so that eventually petered out; thus I go solo at the gym to this day.
Regardless, I do not know if it is in my psychological makeup or previous experience that soured me on having/needing close male “buddies” - I turned out alright IMO lol _ I just don’t need the bond that some guys need to “hang with the boys” (not that there is a problem with that)
At the end of a long day at work & you want to kick everyone’s ass or simply quit, quoting Henry Rollins article IRON “200 lbs. is always 200 lbs”
Puts everything in perspective.
…do you ever spend weekends alone and go back to work on monday without having spoken to anyone for those 2 days? If not, you’re not a loner my friend…
You’re asking people that spend most of their day on an internet forum if they feel like they are loners? I think you know the answer to that question already. 
Seriously though, I am someone that tends to enjoy my own company more. I find that most of my friends don’t understand my goals and motivation and it’s frustrating when they question me about it. After I spend enough time with my friends, I kind of shut down for a little while and spend some time to myself.
Just this last weekend I went to a BBQ for my friend’s birthday and I had to hear it from half the people there about ‘where I’ve been hiding’. You hear that enough times and you just want to get out of there.
INTP right here.
INTP (borderline ISTP), myself.
If your ipod battery is dead, but you wear it anyway so you don’t have to talk to anybody, you might be a loner. (done it.)
ISTJ.
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I like spending time alone, but I mean properly alone when no ones in… I feel like I can actually be myself.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Loners unite![/quote]
Funny.
I was talking with a friend about this last night actually, and we decided that we’re ‘casually social’. I do not talk to people out of some sort of social obligation in order to further my social life; I converse only with people who I enjoy being around. This makes me appear somewhat quiet and shy to some, but the only ones who see me that way are the ones whom I don’t wish to speak. In a similar vein, I only go out when it’s with people I really enjoy and when I really feel like it. So, case in point, I’m completely about self-satisfaction.
[quote]Brown_Lifter wrote:
i am the vegeta character of my group[/quote]
You ARE vegeta? I beg to differ.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
Loners unite![/quote]
Yep, my brother and I just moved in together. He’s so social I question whether he’s gay.
He hangs out with his clique of guys and girls all the time.
I can’t stand having a roommate.
Somewhat along these lines:
I just read a couple of “Louis L’amour” novels, since they are sort of American classics and I never had read one.
I noticed that the “cowboys” spent a lot of time alone. In part because nobody was out on the range/dessert, etc.
Things today are much different. The “Friends” (TV show) syndrome makes many think that that is how life is supposed to be.
The author’s background includes time as a professional boxer, seaman and lumberjack.
Would you rather be a professional boxer, or “Ross” from Friends?
yep, fuck people, noone understand me yadayada
I love this part right here. I’m definitely one of those who catch the whole “where have you been.” I really don’t know how to answer it anymore because it gets old hearing it. I used to make up really random stories just to entertain myself, but that eventually got boring too.
I’ve always been a loner. Since childhood, in spite of being the eldest of 4 kids, I’ve spent most of my time alone.
As an illustrator, I work in my studio all day… ALONE. I train in my home gym… ALONE.
Most people annoy me. They’re needy and have expectations.
I like solitude. The only social life I really have is with my wife and son which I cherish more than anything else.
[quote]jtg987 wrote:
i dont mean socially retarded, however i’ve realized the last couple of days that im happier when im by myself than with other people. i still go out atleast once a week on a saturday night, i catch up with people but yet i feel better off when im by myself as opposed to continually with a group of people
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Being comfortable alone is an indicator of intelligence. It also means that, at least subconsciously, you hold most people in low regard.
I have a very few friends with whom I interact, but mostly keep to myself.
this topic came up at dinner one night with my parents and it made me realize that over the past 2-3 years(finished high school in 05) that the people i used too speak to has plummeted, first i used too see or catch up with a group ranging between 20-40 people on atleast 2-3 time a week, now its dropped down to about 3-4 people once a week if im lucky
its funny when i had my first girlfriend out of high school, i made time at least twice a week to catch up with the boys whether it be going down to the pub and playing some pool or going to a party, so many people once they get a girlfriend just dissipate and once they break up expect to go back to how it was
last week there was a lottery draw in australia for 58 million, to be honest if i had won it my plans were too buy a country property, buy a bunch of cd, my own weights and just train and listen to music by myself, i couldnt be happier