Liking My Own Company

It feels rather odd to say this, but I personally enjoy my own company. Before anyone jumps to conclusions and thinks that I'm some sort of loner, I do like to be around friends and family. But it seems that over the years I've grown to like my own company more and more.

I live in a family of five (myself included). Therefore I'm always around people and theirs ways, plus the fact that I'm in school roughly six hours a day means that I'm in constant contact with others. When I was younger, basically a toddler, I would have obviously needed to be around some sort of adult most of the time, i.e aroud my parents or relatives. Because if they weren't there, I could've hurt myself etc. But now that I'm older, I'm more independent and I can look after myself. So obviously my parents trust me to be on my own and have a little more privacy.

Being around my family gets annoying sometimes. Of course I love them and couldn't live without them, but every now and then I wish I just lived in my own house somewhere else. I suppose it's only natural to feel this way as we all need time to ourselves every once in a while...

But there's more reasons why I spend most of my time by myself doing what I want to do. It's because my family and friends don't really share my interests, so when I'm around them I just get bored and go do my own thing. Usually that would entail writing some poetry/short stories, reading, going for a cycle or playing guitar. That's not always the case though. Sometimes I do enjoy things my family do.

Some my argue I'll end up being a depressed loner, but I have to disagree. I believe I'm strong enough to control the balance between the company of myself and the company of others.