It’s hard for a hermit to be sociable. I can’t blame Covid, because I have always been a home body. I can blame my Dad, because he was the ultimate hermit. Going to doctors was his only social outlet. I didn’t think I would follow his path, when it comes to hanging out at home, it’s getting easier. I’ve made many friends over the years, but I have lost touch with most of them. I imagine they are out there socializing and engaging the world, which depresses me. But then, I realize, maybe they are all hermits too, a landscape littered with little lumps of people keeping to themselves. Sickly, that image makes me feel better. Now that it’s Spring, I’ve been in the yard a lot. I’ve made a habit of talking with the neighbors, around me, and those who pass by on walks. I have to be careful. I am threatening my hermit status.
Hermit
2 responses to “Hermit”
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I echo the hermit!
however I can’t blame my dad – he was unbelievably outgoing, most of the time (that is, when he wasn’t busy being depressed); for a guy who worked 14 hour days and was often up in the middle of the night for emergencies (he was a doctor), he sure had a lot of friends.
He played bridge every Friday till 2 or 3 in the morning, danced unbelievably well for a 5 foot 6, 250 pound fellow with one “Polio leg”.
He played the violin, was the number one Cantor at our church and was a very funny punster.I too, have lost touch with just about all my friends, but now at age 84 I have begun to send out feelers by email and I am really “chuffed”, to find that they are slowly and one by one, responding.
I too, tell everyone who passes by “good morning!”, or “good evening”, never mind whether they think I’m crazy or not (this is downtown Toronto, and folks generally keep their head down and their ears plugged with those little wired buttons which tell you that they can’t hear anything going on around them).
So try to have a good time, Hermit – – – you’re in good company!
There are very, very many of us and just maybe, if we make enough noise, the 50- and 60- year-olds will begin to say “hello!” Spontaneously and if were lucky, we’ll change the world!
please accept my good wishes for 2023 – let’s hope it’s a good year!Gervais Harry (CBHRT.ca).
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All those friends are most likely at home as well. My friends group is extremely small as I have grown older and I found I liked being a home body so much I stopped reaching out to my friends. Over the past year I have made a point to reach out to them at least once a month to catch up and connect over the phone.
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