I am a recluse. \u00a0Not all the time, but the potential is always lying in wait, hoping for the moment when I’ll be on vacation and then it leaps forth and swallows me whole.<\/p>\n
I don’t know why it is. \u00a0But it has been proven repeatedly for many years.<\/p>\n
When I’m not dragged out into the light of day by my job, I slip into my home and savour the quiet and the solitude. \u00a0I stop answering emails, I barely answer the phone. \u00a0I’m short and abrupt and usually manage to keep to any pre-arranged event attendance but make new plans? \u00a0Yeah, no.<\/p>\n
I consider it reclusion, not seclusion, because I still go out into the world, there are usually a few things that must be done, but I have difficulty enjoying it.<\/p>\n
I have become hermit.<\/p>\n
And I like it. \u00a0It feels so good. \u00a0Except for the guilt. \u00a0I feel that I should be out, doing, being, talking, sharing. \u00a0But to be at home, or alone in the woods, just being or reading or writing or doing. \u00a0It’s bliss.<\/p>\n
Are you a recluse? \u00a0Or a seclusion lover? \u00a0Or is your world best when it is filled with other people?<\/p>\n
~Abysmal Witch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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