Mid thirties—still want to go out sometimes, also enjoy the above other times.
Yeah, I’ve realized that you can’t really put people as easily into the “introvert” and “extrovert” buckets, because it entirely depends on the day.
I can be a social butterfly one day, hyper productive the next, then want to watch reality TV and not leave the couch another. It just depends on the vibe of how I’m feeling
Beg your pardon… After my 40 all I want is good weather and time to go running or cycling or maybe swimming in a lake.
No way would like to spend time drinking alcohol or watching shitty TV.
YMMV.
Fully agree on the I don’t want to go out, meaning social life, too much. Except going out cycling with my sport buddies, ofc
I too, try not to watch shitty TV.
The good stuff however, I do watch that.
There’s too much good TV to waste time watching shitty TV.
“Things introverts say after their 30th birthday”
Don’t get me wrong - I’m right there with you, but I see a lot of people in the age group that still want to go out.
Yeah. For me it was before my 30s even, but it’s less to do with a specific age and more to do with the fact that as an introvert you sooner or later realise pretending to be an extrovert isn’t worth the energy and effort.
This comment reflects such a weird mentality that I see sometimes, conflating being social with being extroverted. The two go hand in hand, but they are not the same. I love having time with myself reading or playing games, but I am consistently at my overall happiest when that time is punctuated with going out and socializing with friends or occasionally meeting new people. Never going out doesn’t make a person introverted, it just means they are antisocial.
Also, even as an introvert, I didn’t want to hang around the house while I was still living with my parents…
We don’t even beer any more. The downsides outweigh the upsides. Cuddle, watch movies, work on the house or garden, play Pokemon.
I don’t have enough space, good enough acoustics, enough money, distance from my neighbours or appropriate zoning to let bands play in my house on a regular basis. So alas, I must leave my house once and a while.
Edit: And the people outside my house make way better tacos than I do, though this can be worked on.
I’ve always been kind of a cheapskate. I’ve never wanted to go to a generic club.
But I will happily go to a party at someone’s house, or a hangout at the park, or even see a band I like playing live.
What if instead of a generic club it was hello kitty themed
Not ‘no longer’. Still once in a while.
“Not wanting to go out” anymore is the most pessimistic way to view it. There’s just better, more fulfilling things to do other than the things other people have suggested that we should be doing with our time and money.
it’s not that I don’t want to go out, there’s just nowhere to go for people in mid 30, at least around where I live. Also been suffering from social anxiety most of my life and only recently got it under control with meds which made me crave social interactions more than ever.
