That person seems like a very curious type of miserable. I am pretty miserable myself most of the time, but I just cannot grasp avoiding basic human contact.
Don’t take this the wrong way, but that’s a lack of imagination on your part.
There’s plenty of reasons and situations and types of people for whom avoiding basic human contact at some point in the timeline of their lives, was both necessary and correct for them.
Not to mention the most glaringly obvious one; pain avoidance. The instinct to avoid the thing that causes us pain is as human as a light conversation ending in laughter, and both are equally valid things which may occur at the apocalypse itself.
That person seems like a very curious type of miserable. I am pretty miserable myself most of the time, but I just cannot grasp avoiding basic human contact.
Don’t take this the wrong way, but that’s a lack of imagination on your part.
There’s plenty of reasons and situations and types of people for whom avoiding basic human contact at some point in the timeline of their lives, was both necessary and correct for them.
Not to mention the most glaringly obvious one; pain avoidance. The instinct to avoid the thing that causes us pain is as human as a light conversation ending in laughter, and both are equally valid things which may occur at the apocalypse itself.