One of the Best Ways to Take a Break for Those Who Prefer Being Alone

The pool I go to has people using it most of the time. For people who are more comfortable with people around them, it’s a great pool. But for people like me, who don’t talk because they’re afraid of saying the wrong thing, who don’t look at people because they might try to talk to them, who feel much better alone; it’s a bit of a nightmare. For me, not everyone, but most people are full of problems! I love and feel safe with things like computers, working on something etc. For example, computers are great because it’s easy to predict the result. In real life, and especially in what I call the social world, it’s harder to predict outcomes than it is to predict when a meteor will hit the Earth. So I don’t like the social world. I can say that I hate most of the society that I expect for a small group of people. I think most people don’t like each other either. We just have to be together because someone has to take out the rubbish or do a different job that we can’t do at the same time, right? Anyway, I thank you all and I’m ready to work for humanity. It’s just a personality I have. I feel better alone, you know?

I have noticed that people, especially those I don’t like, are sleep in the late hours of the morning. I’m not saying that everyone who sleeps late is bad, but the people I don’t like do it. So that was a big discovery for me. It’s being very different when you go to the pool early in the morning. There is nobody there but me. At that moment, you start to ask yourself why am I doing this? I mean, why am I swimming? Was I competing with them and getting motivation from the lane next to me? Really, why are you doing what you are doing right now? Do we need answers to everything? In this moment, the only thing that motivates you is yourself. The person next to you who you see as a competitor might be the one who motivates you. But, in my case it wasn’t. I can motivate myself on my own and it’s much better. The whole pool is being mine. One of the problem is that you have the all the responsibility. If you get dizzy, accidentally swallow a huge amount of water by accident or even worse, there is no one there to save you. Yes, our pool does not have a lifeguard.

It also feels like a liminal space when no one is around. It may sound strange, but I also liked this feeling. I felt far away from people. People who usually cause problems and make me angry. It’s like going on holiday. I’d like to suggest going to a pool early when nobody’s there, but I can’t because the more people who do it, the worse it gets. It’s a special thing. But you get the idea. Even holidays can’t make me feel that. Because there are people at the resort, but in my case it feels much better.