You guys are weird.

I'm going to be spending New Years alone in my own apartment, probably playing a video game. I'll turn into local news for the countdown, turn it off, and go to sleep.

BTW....I say you 'guys are weird' because I don't understand the shame around spending time alone. I feel absolutely no shame, remorse, or regret about how I'm spending my day today.

I don't like parties, I don't like clubs, I don't like drinking, and frankly I don't like being around lots of people. I love video games. I love staying at home alone. So that is what I'll do on New Years.

This is my first post in this subreddit, but I just want to say one thing: by it's nature, I feel like this subreddit is stigmatizing introversion. Implying that introverts are weird. Or off. Or wrong. Or that it makes you not cool. Or that by not socializing you're not living life to it's fullest.

Bull. Shit.

I'm a totally normal, outgoing, guy. I just LOVE being alone. I broke up with my girlfriend of 1.5 years a few months ago, in large part because I needed more time to myself. I quit my job and now work for myself, from home. I've cut out 90% of my friends, because they spend every minute of their free time drinking, doing drugs, and going to clubs. Haven't regretted any of those things for a second.

I love reading, learning, playing chess, drawing, video games, pondering, writing, and running my business. At home. To me, THAT is living life to it's fullest. The notion that I should be ashamed for not "going out" is absolutely asinine to me. I partied in high school. I partied in college. I got it out of my system. I'm over it. Now it's time to live life on my own terms. Why keep banging my head against a wall, doing shit that I hate?

I love that I'm introverted. I wouldn't have it any other way.

Here's to a happy new year for everyone, and hoping that you stop looking at introversion as some kind of curse (again, this makes NO SENSE TO ME AT ALL) and as a blessing, like I do.