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Originally Posted by MargaretR
I started this thread almost 3 years ago.
I never 'emerged', other than short strolls near my home, which fortunately is on the edge of civilisation.
I am well acclimatised to seclusion and have grown to enjoy it.
I do not respond to people who say 'get a life'.
I have had a very eventful one and now enjoy peace and quiet and my own company.
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Good for you Margaret. As I get older I incline more to your way of thinking. If I won the lottery I would buy myself an island. I don't feel the need any more to be constantly out in the world and its hustle and bustle. I have a partner and that is enough. We have a four storey house - he has a workshop and study in the basement, I have two playrooms on the top floor. We meet in the middle for eating and sleeping. Behind the house is a cemetery where I can always see people walking their dogs and the sea and promenade is a few hundred yards away. I don't need much more than a few books and I'm happy.
One point though - computers and the internet have made a solitary lifestyle easier by internet shopping etc and being able to access tv and news non stop. A true hermit lifestyle might be quite different.