Anti-Society v Nesting

Television/commercials do not usually depict accurately how people interact with one another. Take "Friends" for example. I live in an apt for 9 months and never met my neighbors. In fact, the norm was to avoid contact.

Studies show that societal trends are leaning more towards "nesting". People stay home more. Why wouldn't you. Commercials show that you don't even have to leave the comfort of your plush couch to order a movie, or pizza, or even the couch your sitting your spreading backside on. Grab a laptop & away we go.

I think I tend less towards nesting & more towards anti-society in general. It's not that I don't like other people. I just don't want to be burdened with having my senses assaulted on a daily basis with unwanted data.

Example: I know nothing about the people who live around me. We have people who have been living next door to us for, I don't know how long, I guess 5 years and I know nothing about them. I call them the Klopeks (The Burbs reference). You never see them. I never see anyone leave. Never see any lights on. It's kind of creepy. The other day, my sister says, he's a DR and I'm think "How do you know that?" and secondly "Why do you care?". We don't share a communal well that they have the opportunity to poison & I keep my daughter out of their yard so we're square.

I think men (and women) are under the impression that women have super-powers of observation. I guess I left mine in the 5th grade coat room.


Enough said about that. I like sitting at home. I enjoy living in my own enclosed world where I can choose the volume level of things around me and I can decide to which fragrances I will be exposed.

If I can make it through my 7.5 hour day at work which is the very anti-thesis to the previous statement, then it's all the more enjoyable.