(May 17, 2015 at 12:29 am)Jericho Wrote:(May 17, 2015 at 12:17 am)Pyrrho Wrote: How long?
To be honest, I have been known to spend days by myself. The longest amount of time that I spent with no human contact was about a week. I literally ate, slept, watched movies, read, and wrote. That was all my existence comprised of.
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I have done similar things, though I am not sure if I managed a week without going out to buy food. Also, I would need to either substitute listening to music for writing, or simply add listening to music to the list of activities.
Now, if my wife were out of town for a week, I would probably go hiking a day or two, and then I would likely end up seeing people. If nothing else, I would see them in their cars as I was driving to where I would be hiking. But that would be incidental or 'accidental' seeing people, rather than doing something for the purpose of seeing anyone. The same idea, of course, applies to going to a store to buy food. I might also see someone while checking my mailbox. However, I might waste time on the internet communicating with people, and that would not be incidental or 'accidental' interactions with people. But I have gone for weeks at a time without going online, so it is difficult to be sure what I would get up to with my wife out of town. With her in town, it would be the same, except that I would see my wife, and she might drag me out into the world of people occasionally, or invite someone over. But since I like spending time with her, it is better when she is around.
Anyway, you are far from alone in enjoying time alone.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.