Right out of the gate: I am a lonesome person. I try to remedy this by going out, doing activities and be amongst people. For instance I went to the city to watch the soccer game between England and The Netherlands. I had no one to watch it with, so I figured I may as well just head into town and watch it in a pub or something. Lo and behold, I run into a guy I know. We get to talk and he asks who I’m here with. So I say to him I’m by myself. “By yourself?” he replies, genuinely perplexed. And I’m here thinking: Well what do you want to me to say?

Bottom line: It’s already hard enough to gather the motivation to do stuff on your own, without people feeling sorry for you.