Does one's life without any friends boring?!!!

[wilbur lim]

Well,I doubt that.I don't have any close friends.
Types of friends can be either bad or good.However,I do not want to have bad friends,but good friends of course.
Without any friends can be literally boring,is it genuine?:idea:

[Sweets America]

I would not say that life without any friends is boring. Detachment and loneliness can be good, too, and soothing.

[wilbur lim]

Greetings Sweets America,
Do you have any friends?How do you know that it is soothing?

[Sweets America]

Greetings Sweets America,
Do you have any friends?How do you know that it is soothing?

Hello Wilbur,

I do have some friends, one especially whom I am very close to.
But, the way I am, along with my past, makes me quite a lonely person by nature. I like the idea of detachment because I like what it implies about going away from possible suffering and impermanence. It soothes me to try and detach myself, but that is also a difficult thing to do.

[Annamariah]

Yes, life without friends is boring. I've pretty much lost all the friends I had since I moved to another town to study a year ago, and my life has become really boring (not that it ever was very exciting...) I still have some friends but I hardly ever see them, and it makes me sad :(

[blazeofglory]

I am addicted or obsesses with all of you guys and girls and I can not think about parting with you at all.

[clumsy angelle]

We all need friends but I guess there has to be ample 'me' time, right?

[Dori]

Some guy by the name of Abraham Maslow proposed that "love and belonging" (friends and family), after physiological and safety, is a human need. I can't imagine living without friends. And whether you can imagine such a life or not, I highly doubt that any human being could live a life worth living without friends.

Whether a life without friends would be boring or not, I cannot tell, for I have friends and have always had friends (I was born a twin, mind you). Nor would I like to find out.

[sprinks]

It would depend on the entire situation, I think. If I was alone in a massive library for my whole life, with no friends, I wouldn't be bored :p.

As it is, I have many groups of varied friends and I love them all, but it gets difficult when I have 3 or so different groups trying to get me to do stuff with them.

[blazeofglory]

Without friends life will be a miserable thing

[Dori]

Without friends life will be a miserable thing

Indeed. :)

[kilted exile]

Life without friends isnt boring. Life without friends leads to excessive drinking, which leads to imaginary friends, which are far better than real people

[blazeofglory]

Life without friends is deserted.

[Nyu001]

I am actually a person that always is alone everywhere and quiet. So, I really don't talk to much people often. I don't have much friends nor I am close to them as seeing them everyday. I am good as I am. But there is one person that I always need and is my wife.

[eyemaker]

yes of course. In my case my friends are the ones whom I get in touched whenever the weariness deep within me burns through...I just can't bear life without friends eventhough my families are also there making my everyday:)

[jhonerliz]

No man is an island....
Honestly speaking, I'm a silent type of person, I'm very timid and shy... it's hard for me to make conversations with many people. But I still have two close friends... My bestfriend since elementary and my husband... I can also consider my co-teachers and my church mates even my family and relatives as my friends but not as close as the first two.
So, my friends give color and meaning to my life and without them, my life is really BORING! :)

[qspeechc]

Well think again. I don't have any friends and I am serious (about having no friends. I mean I'm not joking, I don't mean I'm serious I don't want friends. I don't care either way. I am also a serious person, but that has nothing to do with this.). I have acquiantances, good ones and bad ones. No friends. I'm satisfied and happy with my life. Life is meaningless anyway. My own thoughts keep me happy. Everyone I've met I think is a jerk anyway. There's always something. But that's another kettle of fish. Yes, I am a very bitter person.

[Poetess]

I would not say that life without any friends is boring. Detachment and loneliness can be good, too, and soothing.

I can second what you said and add: soothing, but at moments.

I do have friends, and I guess it`s not pretty soothing. I long to have far friends, because i`m the type of people who would like to be alone for a long time, and when wanting to be around people, I would like to go far away so that I change atmosphere.

Life is boring without friends, and it isn`t at the same time.
You can have friends, but have no time for them. I know people who work 20 hours per day. Some people don`t sleep for a few days in a row. It is good, and sometimes important to have friends around you. But having people in general around you might help you as well. I know that those who don`t have friends (that are really rare) yearn for a human company.

Eventually, you`ll not die without friends unless you are locked in forbidden forest, at an invisible corner of the world, because you`ll have to either work or as for help, or have anything to communicate for.

A friend, IMO, isn`t a person - only. It might be a tree, a table, or a wall. It is just something that pleases you.

[novlist*star*]

I even can not imagine life without friend :)

[blazeofglory]

I even can not imagine life without friend :)

Yes, we can not at all.

[skasian]

Any one that thinks no to this question is classified as socially disturbed or ill.

[Themis]

I rather believe that anyone who dares say "This is boring" and "Life without this or that is stupid" should re-think their statement.

Of course, having friends is fun. It gives you security. But if anyone doesn't have friends - for whatever reason - I do not think it is all right for any of you to judge them.

[Niamh]

I rather believe that anyone who dares say "This is boring" and "Life without this or that is stupid" should re-think their statement.

Of course, having friends is fun. It gives you security. But if anyone doesn't have friends - for whatever reason - I do not think it is all right for any of you to judge them.

well said Themis!
If i decided i wanted to be on my own and have no friends, i dont think that would make me disturbed...

[mercy_mankind]

well said Themis!
If i decided i wanted to be on my own and have no friends, i dont think that would make me disturbed...
I guess It's good to have no friends, but in one and only case. If this friend is not a good one, when this friend encourage you to think wrongly, to do awful things, to change the person's behaviour from good to bad. At that time you are completely right in deciding to have none of them.
On the other hand It is the best to have a good friends, encourage you to success, help you to be an effective person in your society, share useful conversations and dreams among you. Give you the helpful advice in the time of need. Just to have a friend indeed. I think that's better than being alone.

[librarius_qui]

Yes, life without friends is boring. I've pretty much lost all the friends I had since I moved to another town to study a year ago, and my life has become really boring (not that it ever was very exciting...) I still have some friends but I hardly ever see them, and it makes me sad :(

This looks like sad ... Again, you always can make NEW friends! I hope you will. You seem to like to have friends.

However, loneliness can make a person to grow, you know, so ... Take what you have now, and learn! It's the best thing you can do. And, in time, friends will show up. Either the old ones, or the new :)

Meanwhile, we're here!



It would depend on the entire situation, I think. If I was alone in a massive library for my whole life, with no friends, I wouldn't be bored :p.

As it is, I have many groups of varied friends and I love them all, but it gets difficult when I have 3 or so different groups trying to get me to do stuff with them.

You know? I thought about it, once. I shoukd write about again. I burned it, for ... religious reasons. (There was a lot of my literature I burned ...)

It's very theoretical, though ... (The mere idea.) But it has a ... peculiarly significant metaphorical meaning.



Life without friends isnt boring. Life without friends leads to excessive drinking, which leads to imaginary friends, which are far better than real people

Oh Jacob's god be merciful on you! haha! Weird! I prefer friends of flesh & bones!



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Heraclitos of Ephesos was known as a lonely guy, I hear ...

There's place in life for loliness. And there's place for other people. We're human. Relationships are part of being human. Even so, if there weren't those who live ... differently than most men, we ... wouldn't be human! So, I don't think it a necessarily bad thing to live completely alone.

I can't do it! I'd be(come) crazy, I think. unless my god told me to do so. Then, I'd be able to. It isn't the case, thank him I do!


That's me.
Interesting question.
Interesting reactions.~


:crash:

And tonight, a friend has invited me for a post Christmas dinner, and I'll take a movie for us to watch, after people who only want to talk go to sleep.

Nice period of hollidays, we can ... not sleep! haha!


:)

[spookymulder93]

Any one that thinks no to this question is classified as socially disturbed or ill.

I'm socially disturbed?

Cool!

[JuniperWoolf]

One thing: friends can be hella annoying.

"Why didn't you come over last night like you said you would?"
"Did you forget about my birthday?"
"What did you get on that last exam?"
"How does this top make my boobs look?"
"Isn't my baby cute?"
"Why can't I get a girlfriend?"
"Oh my god, isn't that guy tooootally hot?"

Ugh. Better to have two or three solid buddies that don't annoy the hell out of you than dozens of bubbleheaded, needy, insecure morons. Quality over quantity is the key when it comes to friends.

[soundofmusic]

I think the rough thing about friendship is trying to keep up with it when you feel like disappearing for a while. Sometimes I like a lot of companionship; other times, I want to be left alone...but I can't abandon the people who are around when I want companionship, so I have to hang out with them, call them, write them even though my brain is on hiatus. :brickwall

[Revolte]

Yeah it is, all my friends live about an hour drive away, i dont even talk to them anymore 'cause they cant seem to stand me and their all off doing the "grown up thing" you know, being miserable for a crappy paycheck and an apartment they dont want, all that fun stuff so, i can honestly say, it sucks not having friends, but after a while you start to get used to it.

[kiki1982]

I once had friends, but now they have turned into acquaintances...

I had friends when I was a teenager and then we kept up and went for a drink once in a while. Then, they turned to working as they had finished their studies, which I had given up because of an argument with my father over my (now) hubby, and... they all became so borningly conformistic. It seemed as if they had fallen asleep, they did not think about life or anything else apart from their own little concerns. It became harder and harder to express any deeper thought than what had been in the newspaper...

And then I moved to Germany and then it became really a problem. I pass my days with reading and learning while they seem to have got stuck at their desk at work. Never read anything apart from the free newspaper in the morning :rolleyes:, or Dan Brown. Mind you, they wouldn't even think about the thing with Opus Dei, how that works and everything. They would just read the story. That's sad.

But I would not say that my life is boring at all, actually. My hubby and I still have a few friends who come once in a while and that's always fun. But I wouldn't say I would uncover my heart to them, although it is hard if you are sitting there with the three of you.

Point is, there are people without friends who are not bored and unhappy.

[Annamariah]

One thing: friends can be hella annoying.

The people who annoy you like that are NOT your friends. At least not in my vocabulary, but of course I'm not sure about how you define "a friend". :p

I've got a few friends, and even though they're not perfect, my life would be much worse without them. Any person that I feel more comfortable without is not a friend of mine.

[dafydd manton]

I'm prepared to have a tiny wager that those who maintain that they don;t want or need friends are very young, because one thing that certainly gets you as you get older is that you can't manage on your own. As illnesses take hold, you need someone around, and paying for a health-care professional is a pretty poor substitute Also, as you get older, perhaps you get a little more tolerant of the foibles of those around you, and you soon cotton on as to who is a genuine friend and who isn't. I am personally very fortunate, because by wife is also my best friend.